It happened to me a couple of times today, but I dismissed it as an error of mine. While looking at recent changes, i saw it happened some more times to different users.
When one edits a section of a long article, upon saving the page a big portion of the article (sometimes everything from that section down to the end) gets replicated, and you end up with an article twice as long.
Saw it also on it:Wikipedia:Bar, the equivalent of the english Village Pump. Went from 120 KB to 240 KB in a single edit that inserted an entire copy of the Bar inside a comment.
See for example this edit (image maintenance page):
http://it.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Immagini_da_verificare&...
User:Painlord2k was just trying to remove the [[:Image:Torvalds1.jpg]] at the end, but the entire 134-items list in the previous section was duplicated, and the article got twice as long!
Alfio
Alfio Puglisi schrieb:
When one edits a section of a long article, upon saving the page a big portion of the article (sometimes everything from that section down to the end) gets replicated, and you end up with an article twice as long.
I think this is the corresponding bug report: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56
It's not new, I've seen this many times.
Kurt
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 00:06:28 +0200 (MEST), Alfio Puglisi puglisi@arcetri.astro.it wrote:
It happened to me a couple of times today, but I dismissed it as an error of mine. While looking at recent changes, i saw it happened some more times to different users.
When one edits a section of a long article, upon saving the page a big portion of the article (sometimes everything from that section down to the end) gets replicated, and you end up with an article twice as long.
Ah, sounds like my old "friend" http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275 - basically, something nasty happens when you get into an edit conflict with yourself, especially with section editing (or that was the best diagnosis last I heard, anyway...).
Oddly, that bug hadn't been migrated from SourceForge yet - is timwi still "in progress" on that for some reason, or are they all supposed to have been transferred by now?
On which note, someone needs to close https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=949323&group_id=343... now that I have migrated it.
Rowan Collins wrote:
Oddly, that bug hadn't been migrated from SourceForge yet - is timwi still "in progress" on that for some reason, or are they all supposed to have been transferred by now?
I was told not to migrate more bugs for as long as SourceForge is in read-only mode, because it means that I can't tag bugs at SourceForge as already having been migrated.
Timwi
Timwi wrote:
Rowan Collins wrote:
Oddly, that bug hadn't been migrated from SourceForge yet - is timwi still "in progress" on that for some reason, or are they all supposed to have been transferred by now?
I was told not to migrate more bugs for as long as SourceForge is in read-only mode, because it means that I can't tag bugs at SourceForge as already having been migrated.
That was a six-hour maintenance downtime which has been over for a day or two by now.
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