Last modified: 2014-11-20 19:27:58 UTC
From tgr on wikitech-l: | Another low-hanging fruit would be to special-case the situation when | editor A adds text to the end of a section but does not start a new | section, while editor B adds a new section to the same place. This is | currently a conflict as they both try to insert to the same "slot" between | paragraphs, so a generic merge tool cannot figure out whether those | additions conflict and what would be the right order if they don't; | however, knowing the semantics of wikitext, inserting the text from A first | and the one from B after that seems a pretty safe bet. This kind of | conflict is very typical on talk pages where people almost always edit the | end of a section, and the few "hot topic" sections get the majority of the | edits. Seems sensible.
Sounds a bit like bug 22783
(In reply to Umherirrender from comment #1) > Sounds a bit like bug 22783 Yes, but this would occur for non-terminal sections too, I think?