Well. I was right in the middle of a lengthy edit, and tried to save it, and got a message access denied. I've tried multiple means of access. Wikipedia seems to be somehow completely screwed up right now. Fortunately, I had the (for me) atypical good sense to save the whole edit on my local computer before I lost it all.
-- John Knouse jaknouse@frognet.net
John Knouse wrote:
Well. I was right in the middle of a lengthy edit, and tried to save it, and got a message access denied. I've tried multiple means of access. Wikipedia seems to be somehow completely screwed up right now. Fortunately, I had the (for me) atypical good sense to save the whole edit on my local computer before I lost it all.
If you are afraid of losing edits, you should probably think about using a browser that doesn't eat them. I don't know what browser you are using, but if it's Internet Explorer, it is known to eat submitted form data frequently; this really isn't Wikipedia's fault or in any way under Wikipedia's control.
I use Firefox. When Wikipedia is down, I just press Reload a few minutes later and it will re-send my edit.
Timwi
On Feb 27, 2004, at 11:09 PM, Timwi wrote:
John Knouse wrote:
Well. I was right in the middle of a lengthy edit, and tried to save it, and got a message access denied. I've tried multiple means of access. Wikipedia seems to be somehow completely screwed up right now. Fortunately, I had the (for me) atypical good sense to save the whole edit on my local computer before I lost it all.
If you are afraid of losing edits, you should probably think about using a browser that doesn't eat them. I don't know what browser you are using, but if it's Internet Explorer, it is known to eat submitted form data frequently; this really isn't Wikipedia's fault or in any way under Wikipedia's control.
I use Firefox. When Wikipedia is down, I just press Reload a few minutes later and it will re-send my edit.
Sometimes this will work in IE. Just don't hit the back button. The submission is saved so that you can resend it by reloading the result page, but it's not saved in the cache of the form page, so when you go back the text area is reset. which means you can't copy your changes into a text editor at that point. Which is a pain.
Peter
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