Well, judging by the number of occurrences of data loss with edit conflicts and the ease of losing data due to edit conflicts, I would say this is a design problem at least as much as user error. If I get tripped up by this, imagine the number of new users who get confused and give up. If this had been my first experience as an editor, you'd never hear from me again, even more so if I was told that the data loss was my fault. How would you feel if someone told you that after you volunteered two hours of your time and had all your work disappear that it was your fault?
One way to handle the attribution issue with saving a copy of the work in user space is to link to the source article in the edit summary. Zack's suggestion would be ok. It would be important that the draft is publicly visible in user space. Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/> *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Alex Monk <kren...@gmail.com> wrote: > It sounds like the data loss here was purely due to user error, David. > > Also, Pine, users do not have a 'sandbox' as far as the software is aware. > Maybe we could allow saving things to a given subpage of their user page > though. > I wonder if there would be issues with this idea due to missing > history/attribution/etc.... > > On 16 November 2014 22:41, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 16 November 2014 22:36, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > James: would it be possible to automatically save the text of a page > to a > > > user's sandbox when they encounter an edit conflict? This would > overwrite > > > the content of the sandbox, but that could be reverted using the normal > > > history page for the sandbox. > > > > > > +1 to something that achieves this effect. (Dataloss = major > high-priority > > bug.) > > > > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
