On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Moiz Syed <msyed(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This is how I feel when I read threads like this.
In my experiences, a lot of edit summaries already are "canned", the field
is left blank and is populated by an automated summary about a section. And
that didnt break the internet.
There are 3 existing types of automated elements in edit summaries:
1) If you click [edit] on a section heading (rather than for the whole
page), it will automatically insert this in the wikimarkup-mode
edit-summary text-area:
/* section title */
which transforms into this in watchlists/RecentChanges/etc:
(→ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary>section title: )
2) the 4 types of fully automatic editsummary (list
here<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Automatic_edit_summaries#Th…)s>),
eg.
*(←
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Automatic_edit_summaries>Blanked
the page)*
3) the "Tags" that gets appended after the edit-summary, eg.
(Tag <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Tags>:
VisualEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor>
)
HTH.
Quiddity