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I made a bunch of edits to a wiki page at work. When I came home, I noticed I had that page open for edit, but there was no indication that it had been edited.

When a user opens a wiki page for edit, that is currently being edited by another user, both users should be informed of that fact.

Fog Creek Case FC2035768

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Yes, I consider this also important. We're running a mediawiki installation in-house which has a similar thing (only a global notification, afaik). – Markus Sep 11 2010 at 7:41
the side by side compare display you see when trying to save conflicting edits is only good for small changes. Since it's not a full-on merge tool, when two people have spent a lot of time editing it's not useful. So, I agree, an edit conflict notification is a VERY good feature (plus, of course, a full-on merge tool) – PJM Feb 2 2012 at 15:45

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Thanks for the feature request! We'll file it as an official request when it reaches our top 100 feature requests by votes. To get it there, vote up this question!

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I see that someone posted a bugmonkey customization to do this for cases (http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com/questions/7973/notify-me-when-a-case-is-updated-while-im-viewing-it) I wonder if the same approach would work for wiki articles?

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I believe it would need to be different since cases have the lovely goBug javascript object on the page and an api to get the latest bugevent id. Wiki pages don't have the equivalent javascript object – adambox♦ Jul 26 at 14:00
@adambox Somebody will have to adapt the customization, to $.get the page with URL $('#idViewInfo').attr('href') and check whether its $('#staticRecentChanges tbody tr:first').attr('id') changed... – Michel de Ruiter♦ Jul 26 at 21:08

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