Alex wrote:
A possible option would be to have a checkbox (probably on Special:Drafts itself, to avoid cluttering the edit page and to avoid accidental clicks) to mark drafts as public. This would be especially useful when combined with bug 17067, the ability to create drafts of protected pages, a user could make a draft, mark it as public, then link to it for an admin to add to the page.
I worry it goes beyond what Drafts attempted to do. So now you start having queues of Drafts, someone seeing the public draft shouldn't delete others drafts when saving, but perhaps the original draft should be marked as 'Foo did an edit from this'. Should the history mark the draft author somewhere?
Welcome to the Wikimedia developer life, Trevor.
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