Hi, this is a proposal for a new feature to mediawiki core or a new
extension (I would myself prefer an extension, but given that the
development process seems to be broken, per my previous email, it's
likely not possible for a non-wmf dev to have it deployed)
I think many editors had the problem that they were editing a page,
but had to leave computer for some reason before they finished and
needed to save the work, the only way to handle this is to copy the
source code and save it somewhere, but what if you aren't going to use
the same computer? The workaround is to copy paste the code of page to
some other page on wiki, but that isn't really so easy, for new users
and it's annoying. It would be nice to have a feature "save draft to
userspace" which would open the new text box with name of new page you
want to save source to, which would look like:
Special:MyPage/Draft_$ArticleName_$Date
Users could change it to some other name of course before saving. Or
even they could create a template for name in their advanced
preferences. This could make it simpler to save work in progress for
newbies.