[Mediawiki-l] Questiong about editing in mediawiki

[Brion Vibber]

Lian Liming wrote:
> I am new to mediawiki. When editing a page in mediawiki, there are three
> buttons to handle the form: "Save page", "Show preview" and "Show changes".
> Only "show page" can save the changes, but when pressing this button, the
> page exits the edit mode returns to read mode. This is really inconvenient
> when editing a page with long content. I need save frequently to ensure that
> my works will not be lost by accidents. Everytime I press "save page", I
> have to link the "edit page" and find the place I will edit.

Use a text editor and save to a file on your disk. This will annoy your fellow
editors less. :)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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