On 30 April 2013 15:46, Paul Selitskas p.selitskas@gmail.com wrote:
There is another approach: storing the backups at the server side. Some people ( :] ) suggest that it's quite cheap and may be reasonable. Anyhow, we cannow allow per-keypress backup update due to requests latency. And this would be a disaster to process a huge bunch of some way useless requests simultaneously, unless dedicated servers are run to serve swiftly and obediently.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Drafts ? (IIRC, this was for some time considered to be used at (all?) WMF sites, but then somehow abandoned (?). I definitely recall seeing it working somewhere – at testwp or possibly mediawiki.org. Oh, now I see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37992)
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]