[Mediawiki-api] Section editing in the API

[Platonides]

Kalan wrote:
> 2008/3/12, Platonides <platonides at gmail.com>:
>> What about providing another parameter to split that double function of
>>  the summary?
>>  I have seen the convenience to add a new section with section=new but
>>  didn't like having to set the same summary as the header.
> 
> I think that it is defined internally in MediaWiki (you don't see a
> "summary" field when adding a new section to some talkpage, do you?),
> so I think it would be counterintuitive to provide a new parameter
> when "summary" will be just ignored.
> 
> — Kalan

The summary is the same as the new header. It's called 
"Subject/headline:". Summary won't be ignored. It will be only 
containing the summary. It's just splitting the two actions the same 
field is currently doing.