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Polish : Editing tools (VisualEditor and WTE) should display to user when server connection has been lost
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This will reduce instances where user submits changes and receives an error, possibly resulting in data loss.
see — http://github.hubspot.com/offline/

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Jaredzimmerman-WMF raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
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The editors do not keep a constant connection open to the server.

Then we might want to only alert at critical times, like when edit summary is open or when save is pressed prior to actually submitting, e.g. disable save if connection can't be restored.

Tagging with VE-ME and WikiEditor as this is the first time I've stumbled over this, and we might want to come back to it.

Dropping "easy" because it isn't. Anyone tempted to try to work on this needs to have a serious long conversation with me and Operations about how we could do this in a way that doesn't over-load the servers and take down Wikipedia.