Amillie Coster
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-- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 21:29, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi! I am trying to find an article I started creating earlier today that I hadn't published and it's gone! ANy ideas? Amillie Coster (talk) 21:30, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Do you mean that you had not pressed the "publish changes" button? -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 21:32, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, correct! Do you lose it if you don't publish? Amillie Coster (talk) 21:36, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, until you click on the 'publish' button, your edits remain in your browser and have not been saved to Wikipedia's servers. If you lose the browser session (and some browsers are remarkably good at preserving session state), you are probably out of luck and will have to do the work again. Think of the 'publish' button as a 'save' button and use it often. It only says 'publish' instead of 'save' because people complained that they did not understand that things saved to Wikipedia's servers can be looked at by people who know where to look (new page patrollers, for instance) - it does not mean the same thing as to 'submit for review' or, for edits other than to existing articles, to place the material in the main article space. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 22:05, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hi! Thanks so much! very helpful! Amillie Coster (talk) 22:29, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, until you click on the 'publish' button, your edits remain in your browser and have not been saved to Wikipedia's servers. If you lose the browser session (and some browsers are remarkably good at preserving session state), you are probably out of luck and will have to do the work again. Think of the 'publish' button as a 'save' button and use it often. It only says 'publish' instead of 'save' because people complained that they did not understand that things saved to Wikipedia's servers can be looked at by people who know where to look (new page patrollers, for instance) - it does not mean the same thing as to 'submit for review' or, for edits other than to existing articles, to place the material in the main article space. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 22:05, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
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Rusalkii (talk) 17:18, 13 April 2022 (UTC)- Thank you so much! Amillie Coster (talk) 17:19, 13 April 2022 (UTC)