bug 1153

This page is simply a trial-and-error investigation into bug 1153, which pertains to the apparent mass destruction of wiki pages with the occasional edit. It is a frustrating, angst-building, time-wasting bug, which I've come to suspect is related to bug 1104. At the very least, bug 1104 adds the time-wasting portion, since reconstructing the page seems to have to be done by hand. It's possible that the revision history display is all that's messed up, and editing the old revision really does edit the old revision, and smack that in as the new version - which, of course, would produce bug 1153's behavior.

1. First significant revision.
2. Second significant revision.

Now I'm intentionally, explicitly editing r2, which gives me a healthy warning I've never seen before, even though I caused bug 1153 behavior once:

WARNING: You are editing an out-of-date revision of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this revision will be lost.

So, I think we can eliminate bug 1104 as the source of the problem. As difficult to solve as it might be, I fear the Stale Page On Another Server theory may be correct. Interestingly enough, this edit page shows BGG Server: - yes, with no server name. Not even in the HTML source.

Suspects

Edit from oldrevid page edits old version. CLEARED
- Edit from the historical version page always edits the current revision.
- Hacking the URL to edit an old revision gives WARNING: You are editing an out-of-date revision of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this revision will be lost.
- One of the people who caused an 1153 is quite confident that he never viewed the revision history.
Stale wiki page on another server being served up on an edit.
- If this is the case, for some of the 1153's that have occurred, the page would have had to be very stale.
- Currently, the BGG Server: at the bottoms of pages seems to show no server, which means that there's no way I can test this.
Perhaps some magically bad number of previews before submitting causes the problem.
- This sounds far-fetched.
- If this is the case, I'd bet it's not a constant number, but rather something that happens to coincide with something else.

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