On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:02:00 +0100, Anthere wrote:
Just in case...
2 days ago, I made an edit on Erik page, and later I was notified that while doing my edit, I removed an edit made by Erik 2 hours sooner than I. I had no edit conflict. I did not see Erik edit on his page when I edited it.
Yesterday, the same thing happened to Patrick with another person edit, just made a couple of minutes sooner. He erased it without knowing.
This is not cache-related.
Also, I frequently had in the past couple of days notification of new messages. Then, I went on my talk page, and saw nothing new. I went in history and saw someone edited it. I have to reload the page to see the message apppear.
Might be a bug in the mediawiki code.
I suppose these three cases are all cache problems. With the cache also on the edit window. But why recently ? Has this been noticed by others ?
The edit window is not cached. As soon as you do your first edit (or log in), no server-side caching is done. Mediawiki allows your browser to use a cached page after asking back if it has changed. If this response is flawed you could get trouble. This wouldn't cause any editing conflicts though.
When i edit the pump, i frequently get the conflict message, so i'm pretty sure it worked recently.