Topic on 2017 wikitext editor/Feedback

Tvtonightokc (talkcontribs)

There is a bug with the advanced wikitext editor that prompts a message reading, "Something went wrong. Error saving data to server: Empty server response" at times when making an edit to certain articles. I've had this occur multiple times while editing the "2018 in American television" article. For some reason, the edit will be saved anyway after it displays said message, but this only appears when you press the article tab and then refresh the page in which the error message appeared.

Also, it mistakenly identifies any edit the user makes themselves as a edit conflict if they attempt to publish the article changes again once the "save changes" dialog box is triggered, when that is only supposed to occur when another user on a different IP address concurrently edits a particular section.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Are you still having this problem?

Tvtonightokc (talkcontribs)

I have had this issue pop up periodically. I have no idea if all instances occurred while others were editing a different section of the page from the one I was editing at the time. If so, that differs from the standard text editor, which recognizes the section being edited as not being the same as another part of an article being edited by someone else simultaneously, as it should.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I've usually experienced this at Wikivoyage, and I'm pretty sure that nobody else was editing the articles at the same time.

What's your web browser and operating system? I get this in Firefox on my Mac.

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