Community Suggestion: Work on an article revision before publishing changes
Work on an article revision before publishing changes
New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by MrBoo
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When editing published articles, I'd love to be able to start editing, have those edits saved as a Revision but not yet published, because I might change some things, but not be finished with the edits in one sitting. The way things are currently, those partial edits need to be published. It would also make reverting to a previous state possible in case of a mistake.
The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! Unfortunately, this would require a form of version control, which is very hard and involved to implement. As a workaround, you can put the new text in a subcontainer while you work on it, effectively creating a section that's only visible to you, and remove the subcontainer when you're done. Take a look at the guide to subscriber containers for more information.
Current score
19/300 Votes · +3802 points
Votes Cast
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+100
by Those2Nerds
on 2023-08-23 15:49Agreeing with others that version control might be beyond WA's current scope, but it would be a wonderful feature. Even just having a "staging" area for in-progress revisions.
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+300
by Diarioz
on 2023-08-22 12:02 -
+300
by A Glamorous Ooze
on 2023-08-15 04:46Presumably this would probably be a massive change to how the current article system works, but the idea of Draft and Published versions of a page is certainly intriguing.
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+300
by Iluvrien
on 2023-08-14 12:47 -
+100
by Kaleidechse
on 2023-08-14 06:32 -
+300
by Ononomad
on 2023-08-13 12:30I like the idea, but appreciate the concerns on system load etc… as a fallback approach, could there be a way to copy an existing article as a new draft article using same template etc.…Future enhancement could be option to replace the old article with the draft once done… it’s not a version control thing, but may work at least in part?
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+300
by A Beloved Mlem
on 2023-08-10 03:11I like the idea! Perhaps to prevent a heavy load it could be a membership feature? Just throwing out more ideas :)
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+1
by CeleryPerson
on 2023-08-07 13:19It would also be nice to have a changelog and previous revisions, similar to wiki editing, though server load is definitely a concern like others have already pointed out
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+300
by Nimsy
on 2023-08-06 18:36 -
+1
by PrincessESH
on 2023-08-06 03:16I agree with Pete Nelson here. Seems like it'd be lovely, but might be a heavy load on the system?
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+100
by storyauthor
on 2023-08-05 22:27 -
+1
by Pete Nelson
on 2023-08-04 23:18It looks to me that this is a form of versioning of articles, and although it no doubt would be a cool and useful feature, it's much, much harder to implement than it first appears (having been an software/systems architect that designed technical authoring systems for a large aerospace company, I know a fair amount about this topic).
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+100
by TrudyG
on 2023-08-04 18:16 -
+300
by Lucifer__oO
on 2023-08-04 14:41"It would also make reverting to a previous state possible in case of a mistake." MILLION TIMES YES!!!!
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+300
by Michael Chandra
on 2023-08-04 09:18 -
+300
by GM Ryu
on 2023-08-04 04:46 -
-1
by A Sneaky Orc
on 2023-08-04 01:20just set the article as draft
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+100
by Enoris.leinwand
on 2023-08-03 22:52 -
+300
by A Filthy Cthulhu
on 2023-08-03 17:52 -
+300
by MrBoo
on 2023-08-03 12:24
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