User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Try the New Wikia Editor/@comment-1786037-20110702211736

I justed tested how edit conflicts are handled (source only mode) and noticed that it is broken. Usually the upper textarea contains the current article version and the lower textarea contains my edit. But with the new editor, the upper and lower input textareas both show my new version. So, if you just press the save button again, you will override all intermediate edits.

The notification message for the edit conflict is cut off:

"Someone else has changed this page since you started editing it. The upper text area contains the page text as it currently exists. Your changes are shown"

You can, of course, click on the message and see the full version in the popup box, but this is not very intuitive. I bet that people who were never confronted with an edit conflict, will not know what to do, just give up and/or cry about it. Either the message should be shortened to explain everything important in the one line that the alert box allows, or the alert box should show the full message.

Why on Earth is that alert box at the top of the textarea, anyway? It prevents you from seeing the first two lines of the article. Please put it above the textarea. I also suggest to change the colors of the alert box to something eye-catching like black on orange or white on whine red.