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
On 28/06/05, actionforum@comcast.net actionforum@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.