Quote:Bob SchroeckGuess I should keep revising offline pages I'm interested in. What happens to member watchlists and whatnot during a re-import?
You should be notified via your watchlist/email (if you changed your user preferences for this) the page has changed if the page was reimported, as the reimported version would count as another revision of the same page.
On TV Tropes, due to using PmWiki, they saved the new edits but not the entire page proper, just the differences between the old and new page changes. If you edited a page that was reimported, you could go to the page history, compare the diffs, and, assuming you wanted to incorporate the old changes into the reimported article, the MediaWiki version of page history makes it quite easy to cherry pick your changes in case you haven't saved them beforehand because it saves complete copies of the old and new pages with the changes highlighted in side by side view.
If you wish, you could also save your changes for certain pages in your sandbox area. There is a gadget in the user preferences called "My Sandbox" that puts a link to a personal sandbox (i.e. -User:Example/sandbox) in your userspace, and you can use this to store edits to certain pages you wish to reincorporate at a later date into certain pages. You can also use your userspace to store page drafts (i.e. -User:Example/New Trope Page), then, since users can move pages, you can have that page moved to the main namespace when you feel that draft is ready for publishing. You'll want to make a link on your userpage for all the pages in your userspace if you do this (so you can keep track of it easier).