Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote: >> As I recall, someone did an analysis and reported that people click on >> "edit" more than twice as often as they actually save an edit. If >> half of all database text were abandoned drafts, that would be dumb. >> Would WMF come tumbling down if the database doubled in size? >> Probably not, but it would still be a dumb use of resources. > > Hmm, you might be right, if the drafts are saved too aggressively. > Expiring them after a while would make sense. Also note, though, that > we can save drafts locally in recent browsers (localStorage is even > supported in IE8) and avoid pushing them to the server often -- I > don't know if Drafts does this or not.
Please note that you can be going to edit just to view/copy the source, not really trying to change it or save a draft. It didn't use any DOMStorage. It's completely server side. It was cited that the user may want to get the draft from a different computer. Using localStorage was accepted as a nice thing for the wishlist that just hadn't been implemented. Note that having a localStorage draft would be the only way to save the work if the server goes down or the database read-only (eg. so a slave can catch it). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
