[Wikipedia-l] Save Draft button

[Platonides]

"Daniel Schwen" wrote:
>> As this is a button beneath the edit box it would have to be fully,
>> properly written into the PHP that is MediaWiki - i.e. this function 
>> would
>
> This can easily be done in JavaScript and thus be enabled by every user on 
> an
> opt-in basis. If there is serious interest in this I could whip something 
> up.
> With a bit of extra work/AJAX this could even be extended to SubSection 
> saving
> and restoring only.
>
> But the problem I see with this feature is article forking (as others have
> said). Someone wants to overhaul a page and saves it as a draft, in the 
> mean
> time other users edit the original article and... desaster :)
> Maybe only activate the feature for new articles by default?

Can't this be achieved by saving article + reverting to good version? This 
way if someone wants to improve the article, will find your draft on the 
history. They are also available for anyone. Probably easier if we get the 
'stable version' of articles.