⚓ T120898 When editing an old revision in the visual editor, switching to the wikitext editor without changes moves you to the newest revision
- ️Wed Dec 09 2015
When editing an old revision in the visual editor, switching to the wikitext editor without changes moves you to the newest revision
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When editing an old revision in the visual editor, switching to the wikitext editor without changes moves you to the newest revision
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w:en:User:Neil P. Quinn-WMF/T120898 has two revisions. The first contains the text "This is an old revision" while the second contains the text "This is a new revision".
Open the old revision in VE. As expected, you see the text "This is an old revision."
Now, click on the brackets icon to switch to the wikitext editor. If you've made any changes, choose to the discard them. Unexpectedly, the editor has now jumped to the newest revision of the page, so it contains the text "This is a new revision".
This doesn't happen when you've made edits in the visual editor and keep them when switching to wikitext. It also doesn't happen in the wikitext -> visual editor direction.
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nshahquinn-wmf renamed this task from When editing an old revision in the visual editor, switching to the wikitext editor moves you to the newest revision to When editing an old revision in the visual editor, switching to the wikitext editor without changes moves you to the newest revision.Dec 9 2015, 1:29 AM
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