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.ext-status-beta,.mw-parser-output .ext-status-beta td{border-color:#fc3}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-beta .ext-infobox-header{color:#000;background-color:#fc3}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-beta .ext-infobox-header a{color:#000}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-stable,.mw-parser-output .ext-status-stable td{border-color:#00af89}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-stable .ext-infobox-header{background-color:#068468;color:#FFF}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-stable .ext-infobox-header a{color:#fff}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-unmaintained,.mw-parser-output .ext-status-unmaintained td{border-color:#ac6600}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-unmaintained .ext-infobox-header{background-color:#ac6600;color:#FFF}.mw-parser-output .ext-status-unmaintained .ext-infobox-header a{color:#fff}</style> <table class="infobox infobox-ltr ext-infobox ext-status-beta"> <caption><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extensions" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Extensions">MediaWiki extensions manual</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Extensions" title="Manual:Extensions"> </a></span></b></caption> <tbody><tr class="infobox-header ext-infobox-header notheme"> <th colspan="2"><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#Content" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/OOjs_UI_icon_advanced.svg/40px-OOjs_UI_icon_advanced.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/OOjs_UI_icon_advanced.svg/60px-OOjs_UI_icon_advanced.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/OOjs_UI_icon_advanced.svg/80px-OOjs_UI_icon_advanced.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <span class="ext-infobox-name">Drafts</span><br /> <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension_status" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension status">Release status:</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension_status" title="Extension status"> </a></span> beta</th> </tr> <tr> <td class="ext-infobox-type"><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#type" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Implementation</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#type" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX" class="extiw" title="w:AJAX">Ajax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Special_pages" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Special pages">Special page</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Special_pages" title="Manual:Special pages"> </a></span>, <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Personalization" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Personalization">MyWiki</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Personalization" title="Manual:Personalization"> </a></span> </td></tr><tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#description" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Description</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#description" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td>Adds the ability to save a draft of a page on the server while editing.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#username" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Author(s)</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#username" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Trevor_Parscal" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Trevor Parscal">Trevor Parscal</a><sup><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Trevor_Parscal" class="mw-redirect" title="User talk:Trevor Parscal">talk</a></sup></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#version" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Latest version</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#version" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td>0.3.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#mediawiki" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><b>MediaWiki</b></a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#mediawiki" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></td> <td>1.35+ </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><b>PHP</b></a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#php" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></td> <td>5.3+</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#needs-updatephp" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><abbr title="'php update.php' needed after installation"><b>Database changes</b></abbr></a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#needs-updatephp" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></td> <td>Yes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#table1" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Tables</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#table1" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Drafts/drafts_table" class="new" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Drafts/drafts table (page does not exist)">drafts</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Drafts/drafts_table&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Extension:Drafts/drafts table (page does not exist)"> </a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#license" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">License</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#license" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-standalone.html">GNU General Public License 2.0 or later</a></td> </tr><tr> <td><b>Download</b></td> <td><div class="plainlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Drafts" title="Special:ExtensionDistributor/Drafts"><b>Download extension</b></a> <br />Git <sup>[<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Download_from_Git" title="Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git">?</a>]</sup>: <ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Drafts/archive/master.tar.gz">Download Git master</a></span></li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/Drafts" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/Drafts">browse repository</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Drafts">GitHub</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/Drafts/%2Blog/master" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/Drafts/+log/master">commit history</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Drafts/graphs/contributors">repository contributors (GitHub)</a></li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/Drafts" class="extiw" title="gerrit:q/project:mediawiki/extensions/Drafts">code review</a></li></ul></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#parameters" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Parameters</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#parameters" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><span class="configvariable" title="Enable auto save only if user stop typing (less auto saves, but much worse recovery ability)">$wgDraftsAutoSaveInputBased</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Seconds of inactivity after change before autosaving. Use the value 0 to disable autosave">$wgDraftsAutoSaveWait</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Seconds to wait until giving up on a response from the server. Use the value 0 to disable autosave">$wgDraftsAutoSaveTimeout</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Days to keep drafts around before automatic deletion. Set to 0 to keep forever.">$wgDraftsLifeSpan</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Ratio of times which a list of drafts requested and the list should be pruned for expired drafts - expired drafts will not apear in the list even if they are not yet pruned, this is just a way to keep the database from filling up with old drafts">$wgDraftsCleanRatio</span></li></ul></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#hook" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Hooks used</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#hook" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6219282">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none none;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist mw-collapsible-content"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/ArticleUndelete" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/ArticleUndelete">ArticleUndelete</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/ArticleUndelete" title="Manual:Hooks/ArticleUndelete"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/EditFilter" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/EditFilter">EditFilter</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/EditFilter" title="Manual:Hooks/EditFilter"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/EditPage::attemptSave:after" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/EditPage::attemptSave:after">EditPage::attemptSave:after</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/EditPage::attemptSave:after" title="Manual:Hooks/EditPage::attemptSave:after"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/EditPage::showEditForm:initial" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/EditPage::showEditForm:initial">EditPage::showEditForm:initial</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/EditPage::showEditForm:initial" title="Manual:Hooks/EditPage::showEditForm:initial"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/EditPageBeforeEditButtons" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/EditPageBeforeEditButtons">EditPageBeforeEditButtons</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/EditPageBeforeEditButtons" title="Manual:Hooks/EditPageBeforeEditButtons"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/GetPreferences" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/GetPreferences">GetPreferences</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/GetPreferences" title="Manual:Hooks/GetPreferences"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates">LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates" title="Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/PageSaveComplete" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/PageSaveComplete">PageSaveComplete</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/PageSaveComplete" title="Manual:Hooks/PageSaveComplete"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars">ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars" title="Manual:Hooks/ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SpecialMovepageAfterMove" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SpecialMovepageAfterMove">SpecialMovepageAfterMove</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/SpecialMovepageAfterMove" title="Manual:Hooks/SpecialMovepageAfterMove"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/UserGetDefaultOptions" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/UserGetDefaultOptions">UserGetDefaultOptions</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/UserGetDefaultOptions" title="Manual:Hooks/UserGetDefaultOptions"> </a></span></li></ul></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td title="This only includes downloads from Special:ExtensionDistributor. Other download methods such as git or bundled extensions are not included."><b>Quarterly downloads</b></td> <td>25 (Ranked 109<sup>th</sup>)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="ext-infobox-translate"> <a href="https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-drafts" class="extiw" title="translatewiki:Special:Translate/ext-drafts">Translate the Drafts extension</a> if it is available at translatewiki.net</td> </tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"> </tr> <tr> <td> <b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator" title="Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator">Issues</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Phabricator" title="Phabricator"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-extensions-drafts" class="extiw" title="phab:tag/mediawiki-extensions-drafts">Open tasks</a> · <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=MediaWiki-extensions-Drafts">Report a bug</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>The <b>Drafts</b> extension adds the ability to save a draft of a page on the server while editing. Users must be logged in to save drafts, as they are tied to their user account. Drafts are always discarded when they are used to save the page they came from. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="User_Interface">User Interface</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Drafts&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: User Interface"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Saving_Drafts">Saving Drafts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Drafts&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Saving Drafts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Drafts are always saved when the user clicks <i>preview</i> or <i>show changes</i>, however, the following behavior is dependent on whether the client's browser has JavaScript enabled or disabled. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="width:60%"> <tbody><tr> <td><b>Behavior</b> </td> <td><b>JavaScript Enabled</b> </td> <td><b>JavaScript Disabled</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Save Draft Button</b> </td> <td> <ul><li>Initially Disabled to indicate no change</li> <li>Enabled upon change</li> <li>Disabled and renamed upon save to indicate success or failure</li></ul> </td> <td>Always enabled </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Automatic Saving</b> </td> <td> <ul><li>Only after a change</li> <li>Waits for 120 seconds (configurable) of inactivity</li> <li>Can be disabled if configured to 0 seconds</li></ul> </td> <td> <p>None </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Accessing_Drafts">Accessing Drafts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Drafts&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Accessing Drafts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If a draft has been saved the user can access them by </p> <ul><li>Returning to the edit screen for the article they saved the draft of, where a list of existing drafts for that user and article will appear at the top of the edit page.</li> <li>Visiting the drafts special page (Special:Drafts) where there is a list of all drafts for that user.</li></ul> <blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Edge_Cases">Edge Cases</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Drafts&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Edge Cases"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>When a page is moved, the drafts which refer to that page are moved with it</li> <li>When a draft is created for a new page but the page is never saved, the draft will still be available for creating the page and will retain the title and namespace</li> <li>When a draft is created for a page and the page is then deleted, the draft will remain, and the behavior will then be just as for drafts of uncreated pages</li></ul> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Draft_Expiration">Draft Expiration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Drafts&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Draft Expiration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Drafts automatically expire if not modified for a longer specific length of time (configurable). To prevent excessively frequent modifications to the database, these drafts are only actually pruned from the database a fraction of the times (configurable) which a request for a list of drafts are made. Even if pruning never takes place, expired drafts will not be accessible to users. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Installation">Installation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Drafts&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Installation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Drafts" title="Special:ExtensionDistributor/Drafts">Download</a> and move the extracted <code>Drafts</code> folder to your <code>extensions/</code> directory.<br />Developers and code contributors should install the extension <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Download_from_Git" title="Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git">from Git</a> instead, using:<code class="mw-code mw-highlight" style="display:block">cd extensions/<br />git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Drafts</code></li> <li>Add the following code at the bottom of your <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php">LocalSettings.php</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Manual:LocalSettings.php"> </a></span> file: <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">wfLoadExtension</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="s1">'Drafts'</span> <span class="p">);</span> </pre></div></li> <li>Run the <b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Update.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Update.php">update script</a></b> which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.</li> <li><a href="#Configuration">Configure as required</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Yes" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/23px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/30px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></span></span> <b>Done</b> – Navigate to <a href="/wiki/Special:Version" title="Special:Version">Special:Version</a> on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.</li></ul> <p>The extension needs its own table within the MediaWiki database, and this is the reason you have to execute the update.php script. However, you may be able to save executing the update script if you manually import the contents of the extensions/Drafts/Drafts.sql file into your database, but don't do it directly with MySql because the SQL file itself relies on MediaWiki variables for finding the correct database prefix and table options. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Configuration">Configuration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extension:Drafts&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Configuration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following parameters can be set by defining values for the following variables in your LocalSettings.php file. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="width:60%"> <tbody><tr> <td><b>Parameter</b> </td> <td><b>Description</b> </td> <td><b>Default Value</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>$egDraftsAutoSaveWait</i> </td> <td>Seconds to wait before automatically saving the draft, if $egDraftsAutoSaveInputBased is set, the user needs to be inactive for this time, for autosave to work </td> <td>120 (2 minutes) </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>$egDraftsAutoSaveTimeout</i> </td> <td>Seconds to wait until giving up on a response from the server </td> <td>10 (use 0 to disable) </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>$egDraftsAutoSaveInputBased</i> </td> <td>If true the autosave is based on user input and a draft is saved only when the user stops typing for the specified time, otherwise it saves the draft even if the user is typing. </td> <td>False </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>$egDraftsLifeSpan</i> </td> <td>Days since last change to keep drafts in the database </td> <td>30 (about a month) </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>$egDraftsCleanRatio</i> </td> <td>Ratio of times which drafts should be removed from the database when a list of drafts is requested </td> <td>1000 (as in once in 1000 times) </td></tr></tbody></table>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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