On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, this is a proposal for a new feature to mediawiki core or a new > extension (I would myself prefer an extension, but given that the > development process seems to be broken, per my previous email, it's > likely not possible for a non-wmf dev to have it deployed) > > I think many editors had the problem that they were editing a page, > but had to leave computer for some reason before they finished and > needed to save the work, the only way to handle this is to copy the > source code and save it somewhere, but what if you aren't going to use > the same computer? The workaround is to copy paste the code of page to > some other page on wiki, but that isn't really so easy, for new users > and it's annoying. It would be nice to have a feature "save draft to > userspace" which would open the new text box with name of new page you > want to save source to, which would look like: > > Special:MyPage/Draft_$ArticleName_$Date > > Users could change it to some other name of course before saving. Or > even they could create a template for name in their advanced > preferences. This could make it simpler to save work in progress for > newbies. > Have you seen http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Drafts ? -- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
