https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37225

--- Comment #27 from Richard Guk <[email protected]> 2012-06-19 12:56:51 
UTC ---
Even freakier, enwiki:VPT allowed a NON-null edit conflict 6 hours ago.

The history tab gives the following details:

First, an archive bot correctly removed several sections:

* 2012-06-19T06:40:10‎ (UTC) MiszaBot_II (198,571 bytes) (-10,318):
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&diff=498298525&oldid=498279415

Then, an editor's new comment was saved, but with the archived sections
reinserted:

* 2012-06-19T06:40:16‎ Hoo_man (209,033 bytes) (+10,462):
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&diff=498298534&oldid=498298525

Proof that this is a technical inconsistency, not just a manually-overridden
edit-conflict:

* In Special:Watchlist and Special:RecentChangesLinked (and presumably also
Special:RecentChanges), the second edit is recorded as having a delta of
+209,033bytes - in other words, compares the new edit with zero instead of with
the number of bytes in the previous edit.

Fortunately, the RecentChanges byte-delta bug proves that this was caused by
MediaWiki and not by the editor! So the minor bug is at least evidencing the
major one.

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