Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Editing/Autosave edited or new unpublished article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Autosave edited or new unpublished article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Proposed solution: Autosave edited or new unpublished article every minute to a special autosave buffer.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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

Voting

Support--Miaow (talk) 18:29, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Mpnader (talk) 19:10, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Liaskian (talk) 20:49, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I've still noticed problems even in Windows/Chrome (e.g. ERR_CACHE_MISS). — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 21:04, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daud Iffa (talk) 00:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support DonBarredora (talk) 00:41, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 01:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Support server-side autosave. —Bruce1ee^talk 10:04, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tranhaian130809 (talk) 11:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Firefox sometimes fails to restore my unpublished edit. Dexxor (talk) 12:32, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 職員室 (talk) 12:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — SHEIKH (Talk) 13:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aca (talk) 13:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Jules* ^Talk 18:27, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Waddles 🗩 🖉 21:04, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support OwenBlacker (Talk) 22:10, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support LoraxJr (talk) 22:57, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tgr (talk) 23:38, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 07:50, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Support Titore (talk) 17:50, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 18:53, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support daSupremo 22:11, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JPxG (talk) 00:38, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support * --Kitrsjlhf Kitrsjlhf (talk) 01:14, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — HELLKNOWZ ∣ TALK ∣ enWiki 15:02, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Havang(nl) (talk) 15:43, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 18:08, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bencemac (talk) 18:13, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. --Eta Carinae (talk) 18:35, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support K-MUS (talk) 19:19, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support IOIOI (talk) 20:42, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shooterwalker (talk) 22:23, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dave Braunschweig (talk) 22:25, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support MONUMENTA (talk) 00:02, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Juan90264 (talk) 00:18, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support David Delony (talk) 01:49, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 14:26, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Browk2512 (talk) 01:01, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support KingAntenor (talk) 06:29, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sabelöga (talk) 16:52, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support WikiAviator (talk) 10:13, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rzuwig^► 12:02, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kenraiz (talk) 16:34, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 05:16, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sir Proxima Centauri (talk) 11:40, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes, please - extremely useful. - Darwin ^Ahoy! 14:42, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lutzto (talk) 17:54, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Exilexi (talk) 18:18, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contrib} (he/him) 21:30, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support czar 03:21, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 04:10, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 06:11, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 11:24, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — DaxServer (t · c) 12:49, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 18:29, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Annablazeprobable (talk) 00:45, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ryse93 (talk) 12:31, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Uanfala (talk) 13:10, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support DGG (talk) 20:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 20:39, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ján Kepler (talk) 19:28, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support KKDAII (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 01:10, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support SieraArchaki (I'maZee) (talk) 06:47, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support HTML5 localstorage may rock for this. Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 17:07, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Auto-save wish fulfilment, your input needed

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Hello Delta 51, and supporters of Auto-save feature wish, Community Tech is currently investigating this request and we need your input so our engineers can take decisions.

Please read the new project page we have created for the wish and then visit the talk page to give responses to some questions we have for you. –– STei (WMF) (talk) 18:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]