Last modified: 2012-07-30 13:17:03 UTC
When submitting edits, sometimes the post operation times out with an error message that goes something like, "The wikimedia web server did not respond to your request". This is more likely with changes that induce signifiant load, such as changing a popular template. Personally, instead of repeating the operation, I wait a few seconds, then check the history of the page to see if the submit worked despite the error (which sometimes it does). Only if it hasn't worked do I try again. It might be a good idea to provide the appropriate instructions and links to help editors less familiar with the system to follow this procedure, if it's a good idea.
Hallo! A "context sensitive" message would help a lot. Just repeating the action "submit again" was in the past the reason for database duplicats which could be deleted with a workaround (deleting the page and restoring it again - suggested by André Engels). Duplicate database entries seems to be fixed because of unique page names. Nevertheless "submit again" in connection with "section=new" creates duplicate sections. The separate bug 2360 relates to this. Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
addition to comment 1 > Duplicate database entries seems to be fixed because of unique page names. see bug 1202: Clicking "Save page" on a new page multiple times creates the page multiple times
see also bug 2388: "handling: add a "purge" link to [[MediaWiki:Noarticletext]]"
Restored from flood attack.
Noticed this as well when editing some widely used templates
