Svetlana: having accidentally tested this "feature" again, yes. I was looking in the wrong place for my text, and I copied the wrong portion of text in my haste to save it. The text is now permanently gone. Judging by the number of times that I hear about edit conflicts, I have plenty of company with encountering this scenario.
James: would it be possible to automatically save the text of a page to a user's sandbox when they encounter an edit conflict? This would overwrite the content of the sandbox, but that could be reverted using the normal history page for the sandbox.
Pine
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:10 PM, svetlana svetlana@fastmail.com.au wrote:
Doesn't edit conflict show your content at the bottom of the edit conflict page? A bit unintuitive, but should be there.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, at 09:07, Pine W wrote:
I have just lost *two hours* of work due to an edit conflict. I thought using my browser's back button would fix it, but the text is gone
forever.
Argh.
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