https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37992

--- Comment #25 from Risker <[email protected]> 2012-09-17 01:56:41 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #24)
> The drafts saved by a user are not publicly visible and as such do not show up
> on 
> recent changes. The author can delete them at any time by clicking on 
> "Discard"
> either while editing a page for which he saved a draft or while accessing all
> his personal drafts by Special:Drafts.


Thanks, mybugs, for answering #2 and #3.  So the response to #1 should be no
because the draft is not publicly visible, and #4 & #8 would be moot if it is
seen only by the user.    

So this leaves:

5) How long between creation and "automatic expiry"?  Is this configurable by
user or only within the code?
6) Will the edits made in a "draft" count as edits statistically?
7) When drafts are "saved" into the page, is the edit history of the draft
incorporated into the page history?  If so, is there a way to indicate that it
was made on a "different" page and not directly into the article?  [Note that
one of the biggest issues in merging page histories is that it is pretty much
impossible to correctly identify what past versions of the page looked like.]

9) Will drafts be included in dumps?
10) What evidence is there that *users* want this feature?  

I learned long ago not to assume too much here.  

For the record, I'd strongly urge that the first response to any Bugzilla that
will result in a change to the UI should be "Please point me to the community
discussion that recommends this change."   I'm not sure why the WMF would be
investing 20% of an engineer's time without any evidence that [multiple]
communities are interested in activating an extension.  There are plenty of
extensions around that, simply put, aren't used because they're unwanted or
have a negative impact on a project.  Unexpected and undiscussed UI changes
have repeatedly caused significant discord between communities and Engineering.

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