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 > > -- > Michael F. Schönitzer > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 > http://wikimedia.de > > Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen > Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
