https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28720

--- Comment #3 from Vitaliy Filippov <[email protected]> 2011-05-03 17:17:41 
UTC ---
Hm. I didn't think of it. I sometimes do edit-by-going-back myself and
sometimes really get a conflict in patched wikis; sometimes it's automerged.
Really, this could be solved without breaking the edit-by-going-back if the
edit form had some unique edit token, so that MW could determine if the save
request was sent from the same form twice.
I personally think an additional conflict ("false alarm") is not so bad, and an
unwanted revert of changes ("target miss") is bad. For example: is there a
browser that caches an opened edit form between restarts, but loses the
modified content? I think Opera does so... If you click Save on such form,
you'll have the page reverted even if changes were already saved and even if
the edit form has a unique token.
Of course, no changes are lost totally, but they can be "lost in history", i.e.
you can miss that your changes were reverted.

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