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This page in a nutshell: Edit conflicts occur when two users make edits to the same page at the same time, causing the edits to conflict with each other. When this happens, the MediaWiki software provides a screen that allows the user to resolve the conflict manually. |
This page discusses edit conflicts, and how to deal with them. To understand what an edit conflict is, consider the following situation:
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