Steve Bennett wrote:
Since the advent of Preview, I don't really ever see a need to actually commit any changes there.
There is at least one thing that Preview doesn't do that is done on a save - the display of [edit] links. This can be annoying if you're trying to fix the problem of edit links wandering around due to images being poorly placed. I don't know if there are other differences. I'd suggest holding off the elimination of a save option for Sandbox until these are changed.
Also - Sandbox is not a special page - it is just an arbitrarily-named page. On some wikis, this is given another name (possibly relevant to the users of the wiki as a play area). Unless there is a way to designate the page that Wikipedia calls "Sandbox", the code will force all wikis to use that name. Perhaps we need an alias like mainpage.
Mike