Thanks for the report. I'm sorry to hear about the edits being lost, which
I know from experience is frustrating to me when I've written text that
disappeared, but I understand that especially when using beta features
sometimes these things happen. I'm glad that this was found in beta rather
than production.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 5:04 PM Michael Schönitzer <
michael.schoenitzer(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi,
Since over one year the Technical Wishes team of Wikimedia Deutschland has
been working on an extension for an easier and less scary handling of edit
conflicts. After a first beta-version (available since beginning of 2017)
this week a new version is being rolled out as part of the branch
wmf/1.33.0-wmf.3. This version introduced a bug which led to the edit
conflict resolution page being shown when using the preview function
anthrough there was no edit conflict. This led to edits being lost in some
cases.
As a reaction to various reports about this (T208840
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208840>, T209012
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209012>, T209036
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209036> and others), we temporarily
disabled the extension completely his morning (2018-11-08 10:49 UTC). The
bug was found and fixed and we plan to reenable the extension again at
19:00 UTC.
To our knowledge only users who had the beta feature enabled were affected.
Cheers,
Michael Schönitzer for the Technical Wishes team
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