On 5/5/05, Sj <2.718281828(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, I agree that there's no need to make the
poor editor's life harder.
The latest proposal on the VP was to auto-fill the summary box with
some of the text of the edit... perhaps prefaced by a string that
makes it clear that it is an auto-summary (so you can still tell it is
a 'newbie', if that's what no summary told you before). This simply
lets more information about the edit drift up to the RC and history
views. This conceptual change is about improving the density of
information provided by those views, not about forcing people to do
anything.
Or rather than changing summaries, which might actually be metadata
useful for something in the future, we should make the places where we
see lists of changes (history, RC, etc) show some of the change text
itself.