Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Editing/Autosave edited or new unpublished article

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Autosave edited or new unpublished article

• Problem: Loss of information during editing for technical reasons.
• Proposed solution: Autosave edited or new unpublished article every minute to a special autosave buffer.
• Who would benefit: All registered participants.
• More comments:
• Phabricator tickets: phab:T75241
• Proposer: Kurono (talk) 11:05, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

AFAIK, VE and NWE save progress to LocalStorage. But on iOS at least, LocalStorage size is very limited and I lose my work when a tab reloads. Can I assume this proposal is about a server-side auto-save like what you get with Blogger, GDocs, Word Online, etc.? ⁓Pelagic (talk) 10:13, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Yes, this suggestion is about server side autosave. Kurono (talk) 11:29, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Isn't this already available in when translating articles? Because I find that very useful so this gets my support! Sabelöga (talk) 16:53, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

This does indeed exist within the mw:Content translation extension, with a time limit on inactivity after which the content is discarded. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:04, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

• My browser just crashed and, having lost my edit, I thought of this proposal... czar 04:47, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

VE/NWE/Flow/DiscussionTools actually use SessionStorage because of the quota issues with LocalStorage. SessionStorage is lost when you switch to a new tab, so LocalStorage would be an improvement. ESanders (WMF) (talk) 13:19, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support--Miaow (talk) 18:29, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Mpnader (talk) 19:10, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Liaskian (talk) 20:49, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support I've still noticed problems even in Windows/Chrome (e.g. ERR_CACHE_MISS). — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 21:04, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Daud Iffa (talk) 00:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support DonBarredora (talk) 00:41, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 01:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support as last year, with the same hint to please don't just outright disable the visual editor save button for one-time network failures. Victor Schmidt (talk) 09:27, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support server-side autosave. —Bruce1ee^talk 10:04, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Tranhaian130809 (talk) 11:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Firefox sometimes fails to restore my unpublished edit. Dexxor (talk) 12:32, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support 職員室 (talk) 12:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support — SHEIKH (Talk) 13:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Aca (talk) 13:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support — Jules* ^Talk 18:27, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Waddles 🗩 🖉 21:04, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:10, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support LoraxJr (talk) 22:57, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Tgr (talk) 23:38, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 07:50, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Auto-savings to prevent people to save an article. Some people write articles in one single edit. Thingofme (talk) 14:57, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Titore (talk) 17:50, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Lectrician1 (talk) 18:53, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support daSupremo 22:11, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support JPxG (talk) 00:38, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support * --Kitrsjlhf Kitrsjlhf (talk) 01:14, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support —  HELLKNOWZ ∣ TALK ∣ enWiki 15:02, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Havang(nl) (talk) 15:43, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 18:08, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Bencemac (talk) 18:13, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support. --Eta Carinae (talk) 18:35, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support K-MUS (talk) 19:19, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support IOIOI (talk) 20:42, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Shooterwalker (talk) 22:23, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Dave Braunschweig (talk) 22:25, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Support MONUMENTA (talk) 00:02, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Juan90264 (talk) 00:18, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support David Delony (talk) 01:49, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 14:26, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Browk2512 (talk) 01:01, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support KingAntenor (talk) 06:29, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Sabelöga (talk) 16:52, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support WikiAviator (talk) 10:13, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Rzuwig^► 12:02, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Kenraiz (talk) 16:34, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 05:16, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Sir Proxima Centauri (talk) 11:40, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, please - extremely useful. - Darwin ^Ahoy! 14:42, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Lutzto (talk) 17:54, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Exilexi (talk) 18:18, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contrib} (he/him) 21:30, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support czar 03:21, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 04:10, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 06:11, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support — Bilorv (talk) 11:24, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support — DaxServer (t · c) 12:49, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 18:29, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Annablazeprobable (talk) 00:45, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Ryse93 (talk) 12:31, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Uanfala (talk) 13:10, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support DGG (talk) 20:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 20:39, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Ján Kepler (talk) 19:28, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support KKDAII (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support After the crash of the browser, all information is lost and when you restart the browser, the visual editor opens a new edit without your changes. Sunpriat (talk) 00:05, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 01:10, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support SieraArchaki (I'maZee) (talk) 06:47, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support HTML5 localstorage may rock for this. Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 17:07, 11 February 2022 (UTC)