We were also able to reproduce this behavior (changes being overwritten) when both users
were editing without being logged in. Since we have an internal wiki we made login
mandatory before editing pages to avoid this problem (and because many people were asking
for it anyway), but that of course is not possible on many installations.
Michael Richards
PS
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Require_users_log_in_to_edit
Gartnerpedia Installation:
Suse SLES 9 Linux
Apache 2.0.49-27.8
MySQL 4.0.18-32.1
PHP 4.3.4
Mediawiki 1.3