Sounds like a good idea. Even if some people fill it with a single
period, it will definitely increase the readability of RC. I admit to
being a culprit; I often hit Alt-S without remembering to add an
edit-summary. Perhaps we could make Alt-S move your focus to the
summary field if it's empty, and only save if it's full?
This regular appearance of this suggestion inspired the newly-created
Village Pump section for "perennial proposals".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28perennial_proposals%…
SJ
On 4/28/05, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)kband.com> wrote:
Looking at a scroll of Recent Changes, I noticed that
usage of the summary
field has plummeted. I strongly recommend a simple change: making summaries
mandatory for edits not checked as "minor". This is non-obtrusive and
helpful. An example of a wiki that uses this feature is at
http://www.technomanifestos.net.
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