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Edit conflict after deletion should not show a diff between contents and "missingarticle" message
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I created the article and opened an edit window in which i added text while editing the page. Finally i deleted it and sent that edit, which thus had the edit parameters referring to the oldest version:
wpStartTime: 20070713204135
wpEditTime: 20070713204110
wpScrollTop: 106272

However, insted of confirmrecreate i got an editconflict with the MediaWiki:Missingarticle content!

Didn't the slave still know it was deleted? Has Missingarticle higher priority over confirmrecreate? Whatever, the behaviour is inconsistent.

PD: Going back and resending got it right, but with the resend delay and likely being different server & slave, not too significant.

Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
URL: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Wikificar/Por_fecha
See Also:
T44163: edit conflict sometimes does not show the current text - new text not loaded from master?
T25044: Edit conflicts when a page is moved with suppressredirect result in silent recreation of the page

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OpenNoneT72163 Edit conflicts (tracking)
InvalidNoneT40638 [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone]
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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:50 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.
• bzimport set Reference to bz10573.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
Platonides created this task.Jul 13 2007, 9:43 PM
Nemo_bis added a comment.Mar 6 2013, 8:48 AM

(In reply to comment #0)

I created the article and opened an edit window in which i added text while
editing the page. Finally i deleted it and sent that edit, which thus had the
edit parameters referring to the oldest version:
wpStartTime: 20070713204135
wpEditTime: 20070713204110
wpScrollTop: 106272

However, insted of confirmrecreate i got an editconflict with the
MediaWiki:Missingarticle content!

I don't understand the dynamics of the incident here.

Didn't the slave still know it was deleted? Has Missingarticle higher
priority
over confirmrecreate? Whatever, the behaviour is inconsistent.

PD: Going back and resending got it right, but with the resend delay and
likely
being different server & slave, not too significant.

This would make it look a bit like bug 42163.

Liuxinyu970226 updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 23 2017, 7:50 AM
Liuxinyu970226 edited subscribers, added: Aklapper; removed: • wikibugs-l-list.
Aklapper added a parent task: T40638: [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone].Aug 6 2018, 10:12 AM
Aklapper removed a parent task: T20521: [DO NOT USE] System messages structure (tracking) [superseded by T40638].
Kizule moved this task from Backlog to Edit conflict on the MediaWiki-Page-editing board.Aug 31 2019, 6:18 PM
Aklapper added a project: Voice & Tone.May 24 2021, 9:37 PM
matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Jan 14 2026, 1:15 AM
matmarex subscribed.

I don't think this can happen any more. We don't even have a 'missingarticle' message today.

matmarex added a comment.Jan 14 2026, 1:22 AM

May have been fixed by 0107859d41f0bfba98025a1109a8bb2e47ba6265 in 2011:

Don't put the 'missing-article' in the textbox when a non-existing revision is provided, instead display it above the form

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