Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 3 (section)

==Suggestions==

Dear Sirs,

I have tried to contribute to Wikipedia a couple of times. And I noticed a problem with the Edit Page which is probably easy to fix, and which help contributors a lot. First of all, let me say that not having the "Underline Function" often hampers helpers like myself. But the problem I want to report is that when one clicks PREVIEW, one is prevented from fixing that page, as if we try to do it, the link returns "Editing Conflict". My suggestion is that you make the Preview Save different from the Definitive Save or whatever, so that one is able to review the page, etc..

Another feature I would like to suggest is that the initials [Linked] to the main contributor of the article should be given in the text, both to allow users to know who did it. And, of course, to give credit to those who do contirbute, as it is always a pleasuure to observe one's contirbution acknowledged,even when no copyrights are given. The main additional contributors may also be credited, when willed. The individual contributions could be detailed in the links given in the initials. But it should be made explicit that no one bears copyrights to the text

:Between the time you click "Edit this page" and the time you save it, if someone else comes in and saves, that creates an edit conflit for you. That's the *only* way that edit conflicts occur. 
:As far as linking individual sections to individual contributors. If you really want to know, you can go through the article's page history. But our software is not like the CVS software used on open source projects - it was not designed to track individual sections and link back to the person who modified them. Nor would we want such information to take away from the flow of the article. [[User:Raul654|→Raul654]] 17:46, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)

:Also note that if you are contributing original text or images that you created yourself, you don't give up the copyright on that material, you only license it under the [[GFDL]]. You are free to reuse your own material elsewhere using any license or non-license. [[User:Sverdrup|✏ Sverdrup]] 00:17, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

:As for your comment about not being able to underline, Wikipedia allows use of ''some'' [[HTML]] markup in cases where there is no wikimarkup for something. The HTML markup for underlining is <nowiki><u>like this.</u></nowiki> (<u>like this.</u>) [[User:LuckyWizard|Lucky Wizard]] 23:19, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)