Last modified: 2014-10-05 08:51:52 UTC
Hi, I've come across many occasions when trying to rollback something that I end up in an edit conflict with someone else reverting. Apparently, there is an interface message called [[MediaWiki:Alreadyrolled]] that is meant to show up when a edit conflict involving rollback occurs, but in my case it never shows.
Sounds related to bug 52315 When the software like Twinkle does not use action=rollback, it can result in a edit conflict, but that is a problem of that software, not MediaWiki.
It may still be a universal problem though, as I've pointed out. I also wonder if HG and STiki use action=rollback (I will ask at the appropriate talk pages tomorrow - bedtime for me). (In reply to comment #1) > Sounds related to bug 52315 > > When the software like Twinkle does not use action=rollback, it can result > in a > edit conflict, but that is a problem of that software, not MediaWiki.
Well I've decided to look at the Huggle and STiki source code myself (https://github.com/huggle/huggle/blob/master/huggle/Requests/RevertRequests.vb and for STiki https://github.com/westand/STiki/blob/98a2b0b85c7105854be704cd889a70d1dd838882/mediawiki_api/api_post.java ) and it appears that in most cases that Huggle and STiki both use action=rollback most of time to revert (the only exception is when rollback is unavailable for some reason or in the instance of STiki, the user doesn't have the rollback right). This most likely confirms that this is not an isolated case with anti-vandal tools (excl. Twinkle - but that can be for another day) and a software problem. (In reply to comment #1) > Sounds related to bug 52315 > > When the software like Twinkle does not use action=rollback, it can result > in a > edit conflict, but that is a problem of that software, not MediaWiki.
Insulam: Which MediaWiki version are you running? 1.21.0?
Err, whatever one en.wp currently uses (I assume 1.21.0 or 21.1)? > Insulam: Which MediaWiki version are you running? 1.21.0?
Ah, so this happens on en.wikipedia.org.
I just encountered this when using the rollback link from the page history on en.wp so it's definitely not restricted to anti-vandal tools. Also the page that is displayed is not very useful, giving only the words "edit conflict" and an option to return to the main page (a link back to the article would be more useful). I guess that's a different bug though?
I was using Firefox 30 on Linux if that makes a difference
