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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