[Mediawiki-l] Save Page?

[Gordon Joly]

Why does the button in MediaWiki say "Save Page"?

I might be editing a section, so it could say "Save Section" or maybe
"Save"....

Gordo

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[Petr Bena]

Ok but the section is a part of page. You can't save section without
affecting whole page. So you save the whole page, even when you are
editing just a section.

[Gordon Joly]

On 23/03/2012 12:49, Petr Bena wrote:
> Ok but the section is a part of page. You can't save section without
> affecting whole page. So you save the whole page, even when you are
> editing just a section.

I believe that Mediawiki allows editing in parallel....

Person A edits Section 1

Person B edits Section 2

Person C edits Section 3

etc

This can happen concurrently. Hence, Person X changes the section, but
all he changes in total change the page?

[Gordon Joly]

Correction:

This can happen concurrently. Hence, Person X changes the section, but

all the changes in total change the page?

Gordo

[Boris Steipe]

Guys, seriously ...
Its just a label for a button. If you don't like it, you can change it in Special:AllMessages - it's called: "savedarticle"
:-)

B.

[Platonides]

On 23/03/12 22:02, Gordon Joly wrote:
> On 23/03/2012 12:49, Petr Bena wrote:
>> Ok but the section is a part of page. You can't save section without
>> affecting whole page. So you save the whole page, even when you are
>> editing just a section.
> I believe that Mediawiki allows editing in parallel....
>
> Person A edits Section 1
>
> Person B edits Section 2
>
> Person C edits Section 3
>
> etc
>
> This can happen concurrently. Hence, Person X changes the section, but
> all he changes in total change the page?
>
> Gordo

He changes the whole page. In such situation MediaWiki is usually able
to merge the sections by itself, but each of them is a full page save.
It gets exposed in the fact that when there's an edit conflict, you will
get the whole page even if you were editing just a section. But really,
this is low-level stuff which the users shouldn't be concerned with.
You can rename it to "Save text" if you want.