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Bug 58357 - misleading error message on edit header conflict
misleading error message on edit header conflict
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Flow (Other open bugs)
master
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-12-11 23:42 UTC by spage
Modified: 2014-02-19 22:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description spage 2013-12-11 23:42:01 UTC
I was trying to edit the header of Talk:Flow for the first time. But someone else had snuck in and created the header while I was editing.  The result of [Preview] or [Save header] is an errorbox

   "An error occurred.
   The error message received was: Previous revision identifier is missing."

the failing API call is:

{"warnings":{"main":{"*":"Unrecognized parameter: 'workflowId'"}},"flow":{"edit-header":{"result":"error","errors":{"header":{"prev_revision":"Previous revision identifier is missing."}}}}}

(The message would be different if the header already existed and there was an edit conflict.)

The workaround is to reload the page and then edit the page. The fix is edit conflict handling.
Comment 1 Bingle 2013-12-11 23:42:22 UTC
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/610, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.

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