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Section lost when another section edited
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Author: Aphaia

Description:
When a section of http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Village_pump is edited and saved, another existing section is lost (seems the section placed just above the edited one). Eventually the edited section is duplicated.

It seems to have occured on May 18 at first:
http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&diff=next&oldid=487444

And repeated at least twice:
http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&diff=prev&oldid=490029
http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote%3AVillage_pump&diff=490032&oldid=490030

Version: 1.11.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Village_pump

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 ResolvedFeatureNoneT11958 Section lost when another section edited

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:37 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.
• bzimport set Reference to bz9958.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.May 19 2007, 4:10 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Mar 8 2011, 10:01 AM

ferren.macintyre wrote:

On 8 March 2011 I completely garbled http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Silkie_of_Sule_Skerry
by trying to edit. The section heading ==Adaptations== appeared twice after I saved the edit page. I returned to insert material in the ==Lyrics== section, and most of it disappeared while parts showed up in other sections. I apologize for not writing a more coherent description, but confusion reigns supreme here!

Gustronico added a comment.Jan 14 2012, 8:38 PM

*** Bug 24982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Gustronico added a comment.Jan 14 2012, 8:43 PM

*** Bug 18187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Kizule moved this task from Backlog to Edit section on the MediaWiki-Page-editing board.Aug 31 2019, 6:18 PM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:01 AM
Aklapper removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.
matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Oct 18 2025, 1:57 PM
matmarex subscribed.

This was probably caused by the == heading markup inside a <pre> in a preceding discussion section: https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Village_pump&oldid=487444#Anime_and_manga_articles

This bug doesn't occur today. It might have been fixed by the 2008 preprocessor rewrite: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor, but it's hard to say for sure what fixed it.

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