Edits are overwriting text without user notification
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	• MZMcBride
	Nov 12 2009, 8:33 PM

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There have been scattered reports of users making edits that affect some other part of the page without any user notification. The close timestamps indicate that it's related to edit conflict handling, though that isn't conclusively confirmed.

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Version: 1.21.x
Severity: normal

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T72163 Edit conflicts (tracking)
		Open		None	T23494 Edits are overwriting text without user notification

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:54 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.

• bzimport set Reference to bz21494.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• MZMcBride created this task.Nov 12 2009, 8:33 PM

Wondering if this happened for section editing only, or for the complete page?
Should this just be closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME nowadays?

Similar old tickets: bug 2055, bug 1181, bug 17434. Couldn't find recent tickets.

Bug 44360 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Also see recent comments and occurrences in bug 44360.

Aklapper removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.Apr 12 2020, 9:55 AM

Pppery edited projects, added MediaWiki-Page-editing; removed MediaWiki-General.Thu, Mar 28, 8:26 PM

Pppery merged a task: T46360: Edit conflict handling is broken on Wikimedia wikis.

Pppery added subscribers: Wikidata-bugs, Nemo_bis, aude, • wikibugs-l-list.

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