Basic usage

[Wheest]

I am looking to write a single basic Wiki page, let's say called Some Topic.

I want to use mediawiki-mode to give me the appropriate formatting shortcuts, and the ability to save a draft buffer to some directory on my computer (say ~/drafts/some_topic.wiki). I am not a power-wiki user, so don't have much interest right now in the deeper functionality of this mode just yet.

How would I go about creating this draft file, and then probably just copy-pasting the contents of the buffer into the wiki's web-based editor?