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The edit url for the first section edits the wrong section.
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Author: zavpublic

Description:

  1. Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riñihue_Lake
  2. Click Edit under the first paragraph which starts with : The Riñihue Lake (Spanish: Lago Riñihue)
  3. Observe the text that is displayed to be edited in the resulting screen.

Results:
It is not the text that you wanted to edit. Instead, it is the text from the next section. Therefore, you can not fix typos in the desired section.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riñihue_Lake

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Reference
bz12176

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:00 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz12176.
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That is the way it is! The "edit" link is for that section. The 0'th section of a page doesn't have an "edit" link by default.

zavpublic wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)

  1. Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riñihue_Lake
  2. Click Edit under the first paragraph which starts with : The Riñihue Lake

(Spanish: Lago Riñihue)

  1. Observe the text that is displayed to be edited in the resulting screen.

Results:
It is not the text that you wanted to edit. Instead, it is the text from the
next section. Therefore, you can not fix typos in the desired section.

That does not resolve the issue. There are grammar errors in the first section that I want to fix, like:
"It west is it cuted into two arm"

So how am I to try and fix those errors in that section if there is no way to edit it?

skizzerz wrote:

click the "edit the page" tab at the top of the page

You may also use this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ri%C3%B1ihue_Lake&action=edit&section=1

I'm changing this from FIXED to WORKSFORME as it was not really a bug in the software which was fixed, but a thing the user didn't know and had to learn about.

Yeah my bad. And I got an edit conflict when trying to send the correct link :)