Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-31 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi,There seems to be an issue with the extension: It seems when I saved a draft after editing a section, the draft was considered a draft of the corresponding section number (it was mentioned as Article#Section name in the list of drafts). If the given section was removed, clicking on this saved

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-21 Thread Marco Schuster
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO we still need some kind of saving into firefox storage, for cases like a read-only db. Instead of 'You can't save, the site is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-21 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Marco Schuster ma...@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote: What about Google Gears? Yeah, it's Google, but GG supports a variety of browsers and we wouldn't have to wait for M$ to support it properly in IE 20. IE8b2 already supports localStorage, from what I've heard,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-21 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/20/09 3:14 PM, Platonides wrote: Brion Vibber wrote: Client-side storage would be fantastic (and avoid unnecessary server round-trips). We discussed this in original planning but didn't get round to implementing it yet. I thought the rationale was to allow people to migrate browsers.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-21 Thread Platonides
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-20 Thread Jim Higson
wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 17/01/2009 00:38:38: Ok, things are finally starting to normalize as far as getting away from fundraiser craziness, preparing regular releases, and generally getting on with making things better for users! I've enabled the Drafts extension

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-20 Thread Roan Kattouw
Brion Vibber schreef: On Jan 20, 2009, at 2:15, Jim Higson jim.hig...@admin.ox.ac.uk wrote: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 17/01/2009 00:38:38: Suggestions for improvements to the UI and workflow are always welcome! Is there an API for getting/saving the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-20 Thread Trevor Parscal
It seems to me that the Drafts extension provides a neat feature with the potential to save data from being lost by accident in many cases. It also seems like adding a per-user setting to enable/disable it would be trivial and also useful for the few (or perhaps many) users who may find it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-20 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: Since the features of the extension are disabled for unregistered users already Is this a design decision, or just to simplify implementation? You could use a cookie or something, but if you did that you'd have to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-20 Thread Platonides
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Trevor Parscal tpars...@wikimedia.org wrote: Since the features of the extension are disabled for unregistered users already Is this a design decision, or just to simplify implementation? You could use a cookie or something, but if you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-20 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think it would be wise to add that for anonymous users. People could be seeing drafts from other people and we would be unable to assist or even verify reports of things that people see that their coworkers are

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-20 Thread Chad
Yeah, get on that. We call it a feature...but it clearly doubles as a drama-generator for those communities prone to such antics. -Chad On Jan 20, 2009 6:35 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/20 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com: Vry bad idea. I can already see enwiki having

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-19 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/17/09 6:44 PM, Jackey Tse wrote: can't save summary? Should work. Does it behave differently to what you expect? -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-17 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: Although the problem could be avoided for drafts by using browser local storage for the data, or requiring some cookie as a key. Which kind of kills the save progress at home and continue at work use-case, for no very

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-17 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Soxred93 soxre...@gmail.com wrote: After trying it out on testwikipedia, I am very impressed. This is a feature I have long been waiting for, and it's finally a reality. :) Is there an estimate as to when this may go live on WMF servers? per brion in previous