https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53093
Web browser: ---
Bug ID: 53093
Summary: VisualEditor: "Error: Unknown error" saving changes
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: jforres...@wikimedia.org
Reporter: elitr...@gmail.com
CC: jforres...@wikimedia.org, krinklem...@gmail.com
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
It first happened to the user who was trying to add a wikilink to a large page,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Criterion_Collection_DVD_and_Blu-ray_releases;
he got the error while in VE so he made that edit with the classic editor
later.
He then copied the contents of the page to a sandbox -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Marc_Kupper/sandbox2 - for further testing
and these are his findings:
<< It took 74 seconds to load the page in VE, I made the change, save-page,
give a reason (wikilink - testing VE), save-page again. After 1:45 (105
seconds) I got "Error: Unknown error" in the lower part of VE's edit-summary
box. The save-page button is grayed out.
I don't think the actual edit I did matters. If someone wants to reproduce
using my sandbox then the edit was in the last paragraph of the lead. Where it
says "...Essential Art House, Eclipse, and Merchant Ivory Collection..." I
changed "Eclipse" to [[Eclipse (DVD)|Eclipse]] by double-clicking on Eclipse to
select, control-K to bring up the insert/edit link box, appending " (d" to the
link-to value, click "Eclipse (DVD)" in the list of offerings, and then press
<enter> a couple of times to close out the box. I suspect you can make any
change you want. --Marc Kupper|talk 22:06, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
After documenting how I did the edit I tried the save again and again got the
error. It happened 1:44 (104 seconds) after clicking save. I suspect the 105
seconds above is simply because I was a bit slow reacting as this time I was
waiting for the error right around the 1:45 mark. --Marc Kupper|talk 22:06, 19
August 2013 (UTC)
I then did the following tests
I replaced all non-alphabetic characters with the letter "x" and can edit the
page with VE. It appears the issue is with something in the page content,
possibly combined with the page size.
I removed all 'ref' tags. Saving from VE still fails after 1:44
I removed most of the templates transcluded on the page. Saving with VE worked
and took 1:17. However, I had intended to just add "xxx" in the middle of a
word. VE also stripped a table in another part of the article of wikitext.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AMarc_Kupper%2Fsandbox2&diff=569295763&oldid=569295507
) --Marc Kupper|talk 23:16, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
I don't have time to debug this further at present - particularly as we now
have two VE issues. The next step is to revert back to 22:48, 19 August 2013
and to then see if I can narrow it down from there. --Marc Kupper|talk 23:11,
19 August 2013 (UTC) >>
I tested on the first version of the sandbox as well, it took me almost 75 secs
as well to load the page, I wikilinked a word and then hit Save - it took me
2min 15sec to get the error message while actually the edit was saved. Thanks.
--
You are receiving this mail because:
You are on the CC list for the bug.
_______________________________________________
Wikibugs-l mailing list
Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
