Mobile FrontEnd gives useless generic error message on edit conflict
Closed, ResolvedPublic
Actions

Assigned To

Authored By

	Thnidu
	Dec 10 2015, 8:12 AM

Description

When editing WP from my smartphone,* I frequently get messages saying approximately "Error: Something went wrong during Save" that turn out to be edit conflicts. Desktop interface reports these explicitly; mobile should as well.
: * Samsung Verizon Android Galaxy S-3, SCH-I535, OS v4.4.2

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Various fixes for wikitext saving error handling	mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend	master	+4 -7

Customize query in gerrit

Event Timeline

Thnidu created this task.Dec 10 2015, 8:12 AM

Thnidu raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.

Thnidu updated the task description. (Show Details)

Thnidu subscribed.

Restricted Application added subscribers: StudiesWorld, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptDec 10 2015, 8:12 AM

Thnidu updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 10 2015, 8:19 AM

Thnidu added a project: Mobile.

Thnidu set Security to None.

Aklapper edited projects, added MobileFrontend; removed Mobile.Dec 10 2015, 11:26 AM

Jdlrobson triaged this task as Medium priority.Dec 10 2015, 5:55 PM

Jdlrobson added a project: Contributors-Team.

Was this using the visual editor or the wikitext editor?

Wikitext.

Change 260693 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
Various fixes for wikitext saving error handling

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/260693

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 22 2015, 11:42 PM

Spent less than 20 minutes on this, found a couple of other issues along the way too. Should all be fixed in the above patch, thanks for your report @Thnidu.

@Krenair, glad to kvetch constructively!! ;-)

Florian subscribed.Dec 23 2015, 6:37 PM

Change 260693 merged by jenkins-bot:
Various fixes for wikitext saving error handling

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/260693

That should fix it. Obviously your normal wiki won't update to use our new code immediately, but the development code running on *.beta.wmflabs.org should be fine now.

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-01-12_(1.27.0-wmf.10)).Dec 23 2015, 10:00 PM

@Krenair, that sure is good news. I'll watch for the next edit conflict and report back, whichever way it goes.

Mobile FrontEnd gives useless generic error message on edit conflictClosed, ResolvedPublicActions

Description

Details

Event Timeline

Mobile FrontEnd gives useless generic error message on edit conflict
Closed, ResolvedPublic
Actions