User:AstroHurricane001/Signpost story

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A MediaWiki software bug occurred on July 10, 2007 for slightly over half an hour, causing edits and reverts to numerous unrelated pages across Wikipedia to all be displayed at Wikipedia:Wikipedians. It started with this edit by Tiago Heitor, which was to an unrelated article. Thinking it was vandalism, KnowledgeOfSelf reverted the edit, but then reverted it back. Shortly after, another completely unrelated revert occurred, to a version that was from another totally unrelated page. After many continuous edits and reverts, KnowledgeOfSelf decided to report the problem to the Admins' noticeboard. The problem persisted while three separate threads were posted to the noticeboard. After some 50 or so strange edits, W.marsh protected the page while it was still in chaos. Although the page was protected, edits were still being posted to the pahe. The error was fixed when Brion VIBBER notified the village pump that he had accidentally broken it, and that the problem was resolved. Still, users complained that talkpage reversions were taking them into Wikipedia:Wikipedians.