My wiki (zeldawiki.org) used to have such an extension to inform people when someone else was already editing the page. However, it was not compatible with newer versions of MediaWiki and was subsequently removed. I would like to voice my support for such features being integrated either into the MediaWiki core or into natively packaged extensions.
---- Justin Folvarcik
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:00 PM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 20 November 2014 09:33, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
Anyway, the proper solution for this problem is autosaving article
drafts.
IIRC the Drafts extension <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Drafts%3E
is basically ready but needs usability improvements, and development has stalled because when this was found out the Foundation did not have a
user
testing team yet; maybe James can tell if any further work is planned on that. As far as I can see, it would be the lowest hanging fruit by far
WRT
editing improvements for non-newbies.
No. The Drafts extension (and any feature that puts hidden content on the servers) was veto'ed years ago by Legal. We need to stop beating this dead horse.
J.
James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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