On 28/06/05, actionforum(a)comcast.net <actionforum(a)comcast.net> wrote:
There is a message on the edit screens which
acknowledges the bug. Here is the quote:
Expect edit conflicts.
Due to a bug on the new software, edit conflicts will overwrite other
people's changes, even if you do not save on the edit conflicts screen,
and even if you were editing a different section. As a courtesy, take a
look at the edit history after saving and fix any accidental text deletion
or duplication.
This is pretty serious. They should roll back to the previous version. -- Silverback
Roll back to the previous version! That's some pretty powerful
medicine there - it took twenty-odd hours to roll forward...
There's a lot of bugs currently listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MW_1.5_bugs (which I've just
discovered); there seems to be a good bit of patching going on. I
suspect it'll be fixed relatively soon, and a buggy live wiki is
better than a frozen one.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk