User blog comment:Sarah Manley/New Editor Scheduled for Sitewide Release/@comment-188432-20110908232732/@comment-188432-20110909011503

Oh I'm sure there's a way around it. And it doesn't happen every time. But to have it happen at all means there will be editors who say, "Screw it! I'm not waiting", and they'll hit the publish button instead of proofing their work.

My problem is, I suppose, less the speed factor — though it'd be nice if Wikia editing was always snappy — and much more the fact that it is possible, now, to easily change your mind and publish whilst waiting for a preview to pop up. The old, non-lightboxed editor didn't give you this option, so you had to wait for the preview to come up, or you physically had to stop the preview from loading, click on your "go back" button, and then hit publish.

We've gone from needing three clicks to turn a "preview" request into a "publish" request — to now needing only one. That's dangerous to careful editing, especially given the relatively high proportion of editors who are impatient kids.

All I'm saying, really, is that the preview lightbox shouldn't have a publish button on it. You should have to X out of the box to reach the publish button on the main editing page.