I won't store diffs, but it might be nice to see
if, when loading a
draft, the changes from the draft could be merged into the current
edit window, rather than replacing it.
That sounds good.
And another possibility whilst we're kicking around ideas would be to have a "my
drafts" link at the top of the page, which when you
clicked on it would show a Special page with the list of outstanding drafts, which would
make it easy to take up where you left off.
Think of "my watchlist" being kind of like an email inbox, and "my
drafts" being kind of like a draft emails folder. Oh, and it also
it should allow drafts to be deleted, so that you can keep them under control. And it
should show the edit summary description, like
an email subject line, which would also have the side-benefit of encouraging people to
enter useful edit descriptions early because
that'd be what would show up in their "my drafts" page. In fact, to make it
easier to visualize, here's mock-up screenshot of what I
was thinking:
http://files.nickj.org/MediaWiki/my-drafts-mockup.png (it's possible
to expand this with various sort options - e.g.
sort by most recent draft, sort by oldest draft, sort by article name, etc - but you get
the idea).
All the best,
Nick.