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Warn user that they're now logged out when they originally weren't
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On Preview/Diff/Save, the wikitext editor should check for a badtoken event that says that a previously logged-in user is now logged out, and should warn the user. This would help reduce the number of "OMG I was logged out please OS this edit" requests and generally be nice for users.

Version: 1.22.0
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48775

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 1:20 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.
• bzimport set Reference to bz48657.
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Jdforrester-WMF created this task.May 20 2013, 7:30 PM
liangent added a comment.May 21 2013, 7:06 AM

WFM?

A failed attempt to reproduce:

  1. Go to the editing interface of a page
  2. Mid-click (= open in new tab) the "log out" link
  3. Do some edits in the editing tab
  4. Try to save the page

Now I see my new wikitext echoed back (with preview) due to sessionfailure, with a warning now (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning ). I guess this already sufficiently "warns the user".

Nemo_bis added a comment.Aug 9 2014, 12:05 AM
  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 69314 ***
Jdforrester-WMF added a comment.Aug 9 2014, 1:22 PM

Not remotely a duplicate of a bug in an extension.

Nemo_bis added a comment.Aug 18 2014, 7:10 PM

(In reply to James Forrester from comment #3)

Not remotely a duplicate of a bug in an extension.

Then looks INVALID. The API consumer should assert its expectations, as now done in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/154245

Multichill mentioned this in T124451: Don't make edits if a logged in user gets logged out.Jan 22 2016, 6:42 PM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:24 PM
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matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Aug 14 2023, 9:04 PM
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There is such a warning:

image.png (247×1 px, 52 KB)

It has been clarified to warn you about being logged out in 2016 (a813e8f3ab56375ea285beb8b0b31c36b60ef49f), but it has existed since 2005 (rSVN11600).

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