Short description May be an edit icon on RC could show the status of a page which is currently edited. -- ReimarBauer 2006-08-11 07:11:06
- That has some problems:
- Sometimes spiders and leechers trigger lots of ?action=edit. They don't save (except the spamming tools).
Good reason do not implement this feature
- In case of an unrecognized spider or if someone hits edit and closes his browser afterwards, the edit icon would stay until his edit lock times out.
Beginning to edit doesn't mean a CHANGE, so it is questionable whether this should be shown on !RecentChanges. If there is a real change (SAVEd), you will see it anyway.
If someone uses Preview in the editor it could be indicated by that. But that info can give some more spam by edit conflicts if some of that spammers prefer producing edit conflicts.
- Maybe an indicator if you visit a currently edited page is what you want? It also has some of those problems, but is maybe less disturbing for RC.
I have not thought on that nefore but that is wanted alternativly!
- Sometimes spiders and leechers trigger lots of ?action=edit. They don't save (except the spamming tools).