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"Session data loss"-error appears when opening edit page of category for first edit.
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Description

Author: mbimmler

Description:
I "created" the category "Wikimedia CH" by inserting an article into it.
Afterwards I went to the category-page to write a little description of the
category. When opening the edit-page, there was the usual "This page doesn't
exist yet"-text and afterwards in red and bold/italics:

"Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data.

Because this wiki has raw HTML enabled, the preview is hidden as a precaution
against JavaScript attacks.
If this is a legitimate edit attempt, please try again. If it still doesn't
work, try logging out and logging back in."

Below that was the normal edit box. When typing in a text and saving it,
everything worked fine, when opening the edit page again afterwards, the warning
has disappeared.

This pattern can be seen at all non-created category pages on internal-wiki (try
out http://internal.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:foo&action=edit),
but after a quick look, this bug seems not to exist when doing the same e.g. at
enwp.


Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
URL: http://internal.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikimedia_CH&action=edit

Details

Reference
bz6477

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:21 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz6477.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Have you set on your preferences 'Show preview on first edit' ?

Gregory.Gross wrote:

I'm getting the almost the same error on new category pages only:

"Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try
again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in."

I do not have 'Show preview on first edit' enabled but still get the error.

I'm using 1.6.7.

bart.leeflang wrote:

Around 2300hrs Amsterdam time, I received this same error
message: "Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of
session data. Please try
again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in."

When i went one page back in my IE browser (latest version; updated
today), I received another error page expired. I lost two hours of
work... is this information cached anywhere, so i can retrieve what i
cannot exactly remember?

robchur wrote:

This was fixed ages ago...