Last modified: 2010-04-08 11:54:08 UTC
Today I created another DM for [[WiktionaryZ:skälla]] (== cowbell). I started from the Swedish Expression and added a Swedish Definition (only) first, and saved. Then I proceeded to translate the Definition to English after which I saved. After consulting with native speakers on IRC, I went on to add the English Expression [[WiktionaryZ:cowbell]] as a SynTrans. I then happened to check [[WiktionaryZ:spell]] (which had been edited about the same time) and to my amazement found the Definition I just created for [[WiktionaryZ:skälla]] as a Definition for that Expression as well, but with no other SynTrans:es associated. To try to fix this, I added [[WiktionaryZ:skälla]] in the SynTrans table for the DM at [[WiktionaryZ:spell]], then selected [[WiktionaryZ:skälla]] and removed [[WiktionaryZ:spell]] as a SynTrans. This removed all traces of the Definition from [[WiktionaryZ:spell]], but left me with two identical Definitions on [[WiktionaryZ:skälla]]. Thinking this was an ordinary case of a doubled DM, I proceeded to blank as much as possible of the doublet, and saved. To my amazement the changes made to the one Definition, was reflected on the other...., but the SynTrans tables of the two of them where not identical. I restored the content to one of the DM:s (actually the one I had _not_ removed them from) and it reappeared in both. So somehow I have found a way to already now reuse Definitions. *lol* I then chose a SynTrans that only appeared in one of the DM:s (it was [[WiktionaryZ:clochette]] but that has since been removed from the DM:s), and removed [[WiktionaryZ:skälla]] and readded it. Now [[WiktionaryZ:skälla]] only has the Definition once, but [[WiktionaryZ:koskälla]] still has it twice. Sorry for being so longwinded, since I have no clue what triggered the addition of the newly created Definition to [[WiktionaryZ:spell]] (the original error), I wanted to give as much details as I could.
Today, I observed the same situation with http://www.wiktionaryz.org/DefinedMeaning:de_rien_%287899%29 (to delete) and http://www.wiktionaryz.org/DefinedMeaning:Feuerwehrmann_%287900%29 (to keep). They share the same definitions, but not the same translations (blaking the definitions in "de rien" blanked "Feuerwehrmann" as well). Since the numbers are close, they must have been also created at about the same time.
This bug was not observed for a while.
