View source for Edit conflict

== Prevention ==

Because edit conflicts are irritating and time-consuming, you may choose to alter your editing habits to render them less frequent: aiming to make more edits to pages that have not been edited recently, such as those listed on [[Special:Ancientpages|ancient pages]], for example.

Another means of avoiding edit conflicts is to make a single larger change, rather than frequent smaller changes: this makes it more likely that you will get an edit conflict, but less likely that you will cause others to get an edit conflict. Using the "[[Wikipedia:Help:Show preview|Show preview]]" button helps here.

To reduce the chance of edit conflicts, this wiki has an "In Use" notice in its [[Wikipedia:Help:Template|Template]] namespace that people may use when editing a page over a long period of time.  Simply put {{tlx|inuse}} on an article before proceeding with a major edit, and remove the template when the editing is complete.

New since v.1.3 is CVS-style edit conflict merging, based on the diff3 utility. This feature will only trigger an edit conflict if users attempt to edit the same few lines.