[WikiEN-l] Re: Proposal: make summary mandatory

Pierre Abbat phma at webjockey.net
Fri Dec 27 16:03:57 UTC 2002


On Saturday 28 December 2002 04:06, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Not when fixing formatting. Having to fill-in an edit summary would
> significantly slow me down so I definitely would object to having to
> perform the needless keystrokes for these mundane changes. However, when I
> do make an edit worth documenting I do so nearly every time and if anything
> I over document. This should stay a 'rule to consider' for at least
> logged-in users.

When I fix a typo, I usually put an edit summary that just says "sp". If I 
ever make a change and don't put a summary, it's a mistake and the software 
should not allow it.

phma



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