Editing Incubator escapee wiki:FAQ/Contributing (section)

===<span id="CRASH"></span>What happens if my computer or browser crashes mid-edit, or if the server does not respond?===
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: You may lose your edit. Some modern web browsers, as well as the MediaWiki software, may be able to recover your edits when you restart your browser, but it's not certain that it will succeed. To some extent, you can guard against this by editing in a text editor for major work (but note that with regard to a system crash this does not help, unless you save frequently to disk, use a cloud-based editor such as [[Etherpad]] or [[Google Docs]], or an editor with automatic saving such as [[Atom (text editor)|Atom]]).

: When you get a time-out when you try to save, you might or might not lose your edit depending on your [[web browser]]. Some browsers (e.g. [[Opera (Internet suite)|Opera]] and [[Mozilla Firefox]]) will recover the text you have tried to save if you use the back-button. In other browsers, you will lose your edit. You can protect against this by copying the text (at least to the clipboard of your system).