On 26 September 2014 11:43, Luca de Alfaro <l...@dealfaro.com> wrote:
> Saving drafts on the other hand could help avoid many conflicts on > less-trafficked pages. > Right now, on a page that is edited infrequently, this happens: > > - User A starts an edit > - User A saves not to lose work, not quite done yet. Resumes the edit. > - User B (typically an editor) sees the edit by A, and sets to work > polishing it. Saves. > - User A saves --> conflict > > The first edit by A "woke up" B, and led to the conflict. > If we allowed saving drafts, the following would be more likely: > > - User A starts an edit > - User A saves a draft, and continues the edit. > - User A saves the edit. > - User B (typically an editor) sees the edit by A, and sets to work > polishing it. Saves. > > The conflict would occur only if A had second-thoughts about the edit and > continues work after saving it, which might happen, but les frequently. > > Of course saving drafts is also cumbersome to implement at scale (how long > would they persist? there would be clean up needed, etc; maybe they could > persist for one week then be mailed back to the author and deleted?). > Luca, Yes, I agree. We're planning to add a locally-stored drafts feature to VisualEditor, and hopefully we'll also find a way for that to work with WikiEditor, to have a way for people to pause mid-edit. However, storing these drafts on the server would pose some major legal issues that we are keen to avoid. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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