Before I say anything else, is there a specific place where people can submit proposals/suggestions? If not, one should be set up. And if so, the navigational structure should be improved because it's hard to find!
Upgrade to MediaWiki: "Save Draft" button beneath the edit box that saves the box's contents to a logged-in user's subpage: "User:Example/Article title". Far too many times I'm halfway through a massive edit and I have to go - there needs to be an easier and/or integrated way to save half-done work between sessions.
This automation of "in-progress" subpages will neatly streamline copyediting and extended work too.
----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: "Virgil Ierubino" virgil.ierubino@gmail.com Кому: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Отправлено: 8 августа 2006 г. 1:02 Тема: [Wikipedia-l] Save Draft button?
Before I say anything else, is there a specific place where people can submit proposals/suggestions? If not, one should be set up. And if so, the navigational structure should be improved because it's hard to find!
Upgrade to MediaWiki: "Save Draft" button beneath the edit box that saves the box's contents to a logged-in user's subpage: "User:Example/Article title". Far too many times I'm halfway through a massive edit and I have
to
go - there needs to be an easier and/or integrated way to save half-done work between sessions.
This automation of "in-progress" subpages will neatly streamline
copyediting
and extended work too.
The problem is that you could easily have the page overwritten while you work on it in remote. If you don't notice it, you'll just delete the changes when submitting your final version. So the saved draft should have some versioning info, too. Apart from that, it's a great idea.
Berto
On 8/7/06, Berto albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: "Virgil Ierubino" virgil.ierubino@gmail.com Кому: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Отправлено: 8 августа 2006 г. 1:02 Тема: [Wikipedia-l] Save Draft button?
Before I say anything else, is there a specific place where people can submit proposals/suggestions? If not, one should be set up. And if so, the navigational structure should be improved because it's hard to find!
Upgrade to MediaWiki: "Save Draft" button beneath the edit box that saves the box's contents to a logged-in user's subpage: "User:Example/Article title". Far too many times I'm halfway through a massive edit and I have
to
go - there needs to be an easier and/or integrated way to save half-done work between sessions.
This automation of "in-progress" subpages will neatly streamline
copyediting
and extended work too.
The problem is that you could easily have the page overwritten while you work on it in remote. If you don't notice it, you'll just delete the changes when submitting your final version. So the saved draft should have some versioning info, too. Apart from that, it's a great idea.
Berto
If the saved draft is a regular wiki page in userspace, wouldn't there be versioning already?
~maru
----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: "maru dubshinki" marudubshinki@gmail.com Кому: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Отправлено: 8 августа 2006 г. 1:59 Тема: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Save Draft button?
On 8/7/06, Berto albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: "Virgil Ierubino" virgil.ierubino@gmail.com Кому: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Отправлено: 8 августа 2006 г. 1:02 Тема: [Wikipedia-l] Save Draft button?
Before I say anything else, is there a specific place where people can submit proposals/suggestions? If not, one should be set up. And if so,
the
navigational structure should be improved because it's hard to find!
Upgrade to MediaWiki: "Save Draft" button beneath the edit box that
saves
the box's contents to a logged-in user's subpage:
"User:Example/Article
title". Far too many times I'm halfway through a massive edit and I
have
to
go - there needs to be an easier and/or integrated way to save
half-done
work between sessions.
This automation of "in-progress" subpages will neatly streamline
copyediting
and extended work too.
The problem is that you could easily have the page overwritten while you work on it in remote. If you don't notice it, you'll just delete the
changes
when submitting your final version. So the saved draft should have some versioning info, too. Apart from that, it's a great idea.
Berto
If the saved draft is a regular wiki page in userspace, wouldn't there be versioning already?
It would still be up to you to check whether someone updated the real page before moving the content from your user space to the wiki space. What you'd need is a local wiki page with the last history pointer on it, and a routine to send it to the server. At that point the routine could check whether the last history pointer has changed or not and propose a diff if it changed. Not that easy, but possibly the only secure way to make it.
Berto
On Aug 7, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Berto wrote:
----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: "maru dubshinki" marudubshinki@gmail.com Кому: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Отправлено: 8 августа 2006 г. 1:59 Тема: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Save Draft button?
On 8/7/06, Berto albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: "Virgil Ierubino" virgil.ierubino@gmail.com Кому: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Отправлено: 8 августа 2006 г. 1:02 Тема: [Wikipedia-l] Save Draft button?
Before I say anything else, is there a specific place where people can submit proposals/suggestions? If not, one should be set up. And if so,
the
navigational structure should be improved because it's hard to find!
Upgrade to MediaWiki: "Save Draft" button beneath the edit box that
saves
the box's contents to a logged-in user's subpage:
"User:Example/Article
title". Far too many times I'm halfway through a massive edit and I
have
to
go - there needs to be an easier and/or integrated way to save
half-done
work between sessions.
This automation of "in-progress" subpages will neatly streamline
copyediting
and extended work too.
The problem is that you could easily have the page overwritten while you work on it in remote. If you don't notice it, you'll just delete the
changes
when submitting your final version. So the saved draft should have some versioning info, too. Apart from that, it's a great idea.
Berto
If the saved draft is a regular wiki page in userspace, wouldn't there be versioning already?
It would still be up to you to check whether someone updated the real page before moving the content from your user space to the wiki space. What you'd need is a local wiki page with the last history pointer on it, and a routine to send it to the server. At that point the routine could check whether the last history pointer has changed or not and propose a diff if it changed. Not that easy, but possibly the only secure way to make it.
Berto
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