https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42325

--- Comment #18 from John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Marius Hoch from comment #17)
> Sadly this still occurs on the site if bots submit the same new item twice
> during a very small time span.
> 
> For example:
> https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q17294561&action=history
> and https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q17294560&action=history
> 
> In this case both items were created within the same second... I'm not sure
> how to fix these problem.

While it would be nice if Wikidata prevented this, the more important issue
(and much simpler) is fixing the bug in the bot which created two identical
items.

My guess is the bot is running multiple threads and they are not coordinated,
and probably even competing with each other.

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