) 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(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On 20 November 2014 09:33, Gergo Tisza
<gtisza(a)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>
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.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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