On 3 June 2014 04:32, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

Hi,

I wondered where to raise this and decided to do it here.

The message that asks for to write the edit summary in VisualEditor is "Describe what you changed".

In the source editor it's just "Summary" in the core. In the English Wikipedia, however, it's modified to "[[Help:Edit summary|Edit summary]] (Briefly describe the changes you have made)".

Indeed. This is the outcome of several iterations of the messaging around the edit summary box to see what the effect was. It's not by accident that it differs from the label used for wikitext.

Potentially we should consider making the same improvements for the wikitext editor, but we've not considered doing that yet.

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James D. Forrester
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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