Last modified: 2014-07-23 12:34:12 UTC
Environment- Betalabs Steps to Reproduce- For Chrome- 1> Logged in and trying to switch to VE interface by clicking on "Edit beta" tab shows the spinner for a while and remains in the read mode. 2> Now click on "Edit Source" tab opens the Wikieditor interface. 3> Click on "Edit beta" tab again, takes you to the Read only mode instead. For FF- 1>Logged in and trying to switch to VE interface by clicking on "Edit beta" tab shows the pop-up with message "Error loading data from server: readonly: The wiki is currently in read-only mode. Would you like to retry?", with the spinner in the background forever. For Safari- 1>Logged in and trying to switch to VE interface by clicking on "Edit beta" tab shows the pop-up with message "Error loading data from server: readonly: The wiki is currently in read-only mode. Would you like to retry?" This issue is related to Bug 59010 and Bug 60765.
Where exactly is "in betalabs"? All instances there or which one(s)?
I think they mean that they can't open VE on any *.beta.wmflabs.org wiki. Those are part of the deployment-prep project in labs. The database there are read-only at the moment: no edits can be made.
By the way, bug 68349 is tracking the issue which has turned on read-only mode. This bug can be used to look into how VE is handling it poorly and/or inconsistently.
When trying to save wikitext during a DB lock, you can just copy-paste your wikitext, save it to a text file, and paste it back when the wiki comes up again later on. I guess with VE you can still do that by using "switch to wikitext", but it's not nearly as obvious.
