On 05.06.2014 12:32, Shrihari Sankaran wrote:

The label of the Summary field in the VisualEditor is "Edit Summary (Briefly describe the changes you have made)". And the placeholder text is "Describe what you changed". This is redundant. I think retaining this label and changing the placeholder text to something on the lines of what Prateek suggested might be a good idea.

Agreed. The placeholder attribute is specifically intended to provide an example to "aid the user with data entry" (see spec). This seems to me like a good opportunity to improve user experience quite easily by actually providing an example of exactly the type of edit summary we want.

We'd need to come up with a really good sample edit summary though. I'd suggest something short and simple like "For example: Updated data according to new research". Thoughts?

best, max
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