Thanks for the report. I'm sorry to hear about the edits being lost, which
I know from experience is frustrating to me when I've written text that
disappeared, but I understand that especially when using beta features
sometimes these things happen. I'm glad that this was found in beta rather
than production.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 5:04 PM Michael Schönitzer <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since over one year the Technical Wishes team of Wikimedia Deutschland has
> been working on an extension for an easier and less scary handling of edit
> conflicts. After a first beta-version (available since beginning of 2017)
> this week a new version is being rolled out as part of the branch
> wmf/1.33.0-wmf.3. This version introduced a bug which led to the edit
> conflict resolution page being shown when using the preview function
> anthrough there was no edit conflict. This led to edits being lost in some
> cases.
>
> As a reaction to various reports about this (T208840
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208840>, T209012
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209012>, T209036
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209036> and others), we temporarily
> disabled the extension completely his morning (2018-11-08 10:49 UTC). The
> bug was found and fixed and we plan to reenable the extension again at
> 19:00 UTC.
>
> To our knowledge only users who had the beta feature enabled were affected.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Schönitzer for the Technical Wishes team
>
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