Last modified: 2013-07-07 00:03:11 UTC
When editing a section with VisualEditor the page loads and saves just fine. However, if you next edit a different section *without refreshing the page*, VisualEditor does not recognize the version of the page you just saved as what you are editing and loads the last revision and warns you that you are editing an old revision. This occurs in Chrome and Firefox using Windows 7 as I've tested it. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback#Editing_section_results_in_dirty_page_cache_--_have_to_reload_page_before_doing_additional_edits
It's not just after section editing: see many reports on feedback page. I edit a page in VE, save page, have an afterthought, reopen in VE, get told it's an old revision. Then cancel VE, refresh page, reopen VE, no problem. But shouldn't need to do that refresh.
New editors are likely to edit a page, save it, have an afterthought, see this message, and panic. It just keeps on happening: experienced editors know the work-round (hit "refresh"). Until the problem is fixed, could the error message in that pink box be amended to include "Please click "Cancel" to close the editor, then reload/refresh the page, then try again. We apologise for this temporary problem and are working on a solution."?
This is a really irritating bug, yes; sorry about this - merging with the wider report at bug 50441. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50441 ***
