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Bug 53010 - Generic "An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings" message is unhelpful
Generic "An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings" message is...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Watchlist (Other open bugs)
1.22.0
All All
: Low minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-08-18 21:36 UTC by rybec
Modified: 2013-08-24 08:00 UTC (History)
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Description rybec 2013-08-18 21:36:54 UTC 
I noticed this on the English Wikipedia, which is running MediaWiki version 1.22wmf12 (bbaecbc). While attempting to use the five-pointed star icon to add a page to my watch list, I often see the message:

An error occurred while changing your watchlist settings for "[the page title]".

I've discovered that if I reload the page, the page can be watch-listed successfully. The error never appears when I've just opened the page within a few minutes, but it appears consistently when the page has been open for a long time. I haven't worked out just how long that is, but it's more than ten minutes and less than two days. If the underlying reason isn't known, it would be helpful to suggest the work-around of reloading the page.
Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2013-08-19 09:44:33 UTC 
Which browser do you use? When this happens it would be interesting to know if there is also any output in the JavaScript error console of your browser.
Comment 2 rybec 2013-08-19 19:10:46 UTC 
I'm using Firefox 17 on Linux. I restarted it, so I can't reproduce the error just now.
Comment 3 rybec 2013-08-24 07:50:36 UTC 
There's no Javascript error.
Comment 4 rybec 2013-08-24 08:00:44 UTC 
I'm guessing the error condition might be an expired edit token.
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