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During the first 20 minutes after pressing the Edit Page button, the article can only be edited by you. Once it runs out, the page is no longer locked from other editors. It can be saved by you at any time. This is done to prevent edit conflicts (but it's not going to stop them completely), while the short time limit is intended to prevent trolls from stalling.
Edited by Piterpicher Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
If someone edits after the timer expires and saves, you guys will have an edit crash. Someone's examples will be overrided.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
See Edit Stomp.
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^ Which should really be in Administrivia, but that's not the point.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
It's not a strict time limit, but you'll probably want to save your edits before the timer expires and reopen the edit window if you're doing large changes to the page.
^^ It should, yes. We brought it up in the Outdated Pages
thread a while ago.
I had an edit weeks ago that wasn't saved at all even when I was sure that I clicked the Save button. There weren't traces of it in the page history simply because my 20 minute edit lock expired.
I had to do most of that edit again from memory though. It's best practice to save your edits before the lock expires just to be sure.
With Great Power, Comes Great Motivation
You might have been attacked by Data Vampires. Saving the edits applies them to the page regardless if the timer has expired or not. But large-scale changes benefit from off-line txt documents and Sandbox/ rewriting.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
If you're going to use Notepad or a sandbox, though, you should check the page history before you paste it in so that you don't end up reverting any edits that have been made after you copied the page source.
Moving on from my previous ATT
(I'm sorry, Grotadmorv), when I edit a page, I see "Edit Lock expires in:". At first, I thought it was a time limit and that when it went to zero, my changes would be saved, regardless if I actually finished them or not, but now I'm not sure. So my question is, what does that countdown do if it reaches zero?