Last modified: 2013-04-28 12:37:45 UTC
Overview: I was editing several items and noticed that if I changed a description and a property on an item, I would frequently get an edit conflict. Steps to reproduce: (1) Find an item that has both a description and some properties set on it. The property that was causing the problem for me was "Connecting Line". (2) Change the description to something different. (3) Try changing the property to a new value. You will get an error message: There is an edit conflict. Please reload and save again. Details>Edit conflict. Actual Results: Edit Conflict Expected Results: As my version is the latest, it should save the change. Additional information: (1) There is no actual edit conflict. It occurred more than once and there was no other edits. (2) Refreshing the page after editing the description would fix the problem. (3) Add a new description (versus changing it) did not generate the error (4) Adding a new property (instead of changing an existing one) also did not generate the error. (5) Changing the items in the reverse order do not cause the problem.
There were some issues with false edit conflicts which have been resolved lately and are fixed in wmf3. Reladed patchsets are: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/60870/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/60872/ I could not reproduce the behavior described in here before those fixes nor after. So I'll close the bug. Feel free to reopen it if the problem occurs again.
