Chunky Guy

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We're so glad you're here! --Ginkgo100 ^{talk · e@} 23:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

The "Show Preview" button

I realize this is your first day as an editor, so let me tell you welcome. Collaborative editing can be frustrating - but the feeling of accomplishment can be very rewarding, when you do a good job. (In general, the better you do your job, the less others will edit your contributions. Having lots of citations helps.)

However, you should be aware that when you click on "Save page", you don't replace the old page on disk, you create another copy of the page. If it takes you half a dozen tries to get the page the way you want it, on a 30K page, you are wasting 180K of space.

It doesn't sound like much, until you realize that there are a lot of articles and a lot of editors. It costs over a million dollars a year to run Wikipedia, and the servers are still depressingly slow.

And again, welcome. ClairSamoht 23:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

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