VisualEditor: Saving produced a "Something went wrong" generic error message, but it silently and successfully saved the page
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	Sep 11 2014, 5:50 PM

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User:Mike Christie made ten small (often single-character) edits to [[w:en:2002 Pacific typhoon season]] recently. Edits #1 and #3 produced a generic error of "Something went wrong", and it appeared the save had failed.

In both cases, the save worked. The diffs are https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2002_Pacific_typhoon_season&diff=624878218&oldid=624550518 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2002_Pacific_typhoon_season&diff=next&oldid=624881675 None of the other, similar edits made to the article (including one in between these two) produced any errors.

Mike usually edits in Chrome on Windows 7. I've seen the same behavior with a generic "There was an error" message in Firefox on Mac OS 10.8.5, so it's probably affecting everything.

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Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53093

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Reference: bz70726

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:53 AM

• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor.

• bzimport set Reference to bz70726.

• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Sep 11 2014, 5:50 PM

Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as a duplicate of T55093: For very large pages on slow connections (when a timeout happens?), users get an "Error: Unknown error" on saving changes in VisualEditor (but change is indeed saved).Dec 3 2014, 1:08 AM

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