Hi Thomas,

On Feb 20, 2013 8:59 AM, "Sumana Harihareswara" sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:

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My top priority was helping the person that reported it to read the page they wanted to read.

A little gratitude to someone trying to help you fix a problem wouldn't go amiss...

Thomas, thanks for the bug report. Sorry for the mixed messages here. If you run across the problem again and report it to us before helping your colleague, you can tell him I told you to do it, and blame me!

You could both get him the info and also preserve the testcase. Don't purge anything and give him an alternative URL like:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Clark_Warren?foo (I made this up) * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil_Clark_Warren&oldid=523949... in the sidebar toolbox) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?oldid=523949993 (variant of the last one) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Warren (via what links here)

Or just tell him to log in/make an account. (logged in users bypass some caches)

HTH.

-Jeremy