For some reason I am now unable to revert a page that was blanked on en. Is this a problem with the beta or has there been something going on?
On Dec 23, 2004, at 7:06 PM, kelvSYC wrote:
For some reason I am now unable to revert a page that was blanked on en. Is this a problem with the beta or has there been something going on?
Can you be more specific?
* Which page * Which revision * Manual editing, or the 'revert' sysop tool? * What's the exact symptoms? Error message, edit conflict, crash, explosion?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Dec 23, 2004, at 8:20 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Dec 23, 2004, at 7:06 PM, kelvSYC wrote:
For some reason I am now unable to revert a page that was blanked on en. Is this a problem with the beta or has there been something going on?
Can you be more specific?
- Which page
[[en:Video Game Walkthroughs: TI 83 Plus]]
- Which revision
reverting to the version on 22:28, 20 Jul 2004 due to blanking
- Manual editing, or the 'revert' sysop tool?
I don't have sysop privileges at any Wikimedia wiki.
- What's the exact symptoms? Error message, edit conflict, crash,
explosion?
No visible changes were made after saving the page. I tried lots of times, so if there was significant delay in processing, I fear that I will be made to look like someone who edited the page without changing anything lots of times.
On Dec 23, 2004, at 7:30 PM, kelvSYC wrote:
[[en:Video Game Walkthroughs: TI 83 Plus]]
reverting to the version on 22:28, 20 Jul 2004 due to blanking
I don't have sysop privileges at any Wikimedia wiki.
No visible changes were made after saving the page. I tried lots of times, so if there was significant delay in processing, I fear that I will be made to look like someone who edited the page without changing anything lots of times.
I can confirm that I too saw no visible change following this technique: * go to page http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Video_Game_Walkthroughs:_TI_83_Plus * click 'history' * click the previous revision * click 'edit' * fill in summary and save
When i tried again with these steps it worked: * follow above steps up to clicking 'edit' * select all text and copy * click 'Article' * click 'edit' * paste text * fill in summary and save
then it worked.
I haven't been able to reproduce the old-revision-edit problem on a test page yet, I'm not sure what caused it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Dec 23, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
I can confirm that I too saw no visible change following this technique:
It was a problem with how old edit were being loaded which triggered automatic edit conflict resolution. On a straight revert this puts back all the subsequent edits, resulting in a null edit which is ignored.
The bug was caused by a slip-up in my fix for the problem with 'preview first edit' mode causing constant edit conflicts. It should be fixed now.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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