<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">> In order to minimize potential merge conflicts, keep each line to a minimal length (say 80 characters) and do not realign the paragraph in the document while editing. This serves to keep lines reasonably atomic.<br>
</blockquote><div>If you want to avoid the document locking that wikis normally use in favor of</div><div>a closer, more interactive style of collaborative editing, you may want to look at mobwrite:</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/">http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/</a></div><div>MobWrite uses a real-time diff algorithm to diff and merge changes from multiple users</div><div>while everyone is editing (similar to the collaborative Mac editor SubEthaEdit). As far</div>
<div>as I remember, the server code of MobWrite is quite hacking-friendly and could be</div><div>extended to do additional things.</div><div>Google translate's "suggest a better translation" feature works by letting you edit the</div>
<div>translation for one particular sentence.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Yannick Versley</div><div><a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/"></a> </div></div>