2010/3/5 Jani Patokallio <jpatokal(a)iki.fi>fi>:
Right, this was also my understanding of how it worked
internally, the
question is how to work around this? Eg. the API offers "basetimestamp"
and "starttimestamp" fields that can be sent along with the edit
submission, but is there any way to send these or otherwise specify the
last revision with a direct submit POST to MediaWiki?
You /can/ fake the values of wpStarttimestamp and wpBasetimestamp in
the edit form submission, but using the API is recommended. For
clarity:
starttimestamp: Used to detect whether the page was deleted since you
started editing. Should be the time at which you clicked the edit
button
basetimestamp: Used to detect edit conflicts. Should be *exactly
equal* to the timestamp of the most recent revision of the page at the
time you started editing
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)