2014-03-11 1:00 GMT+02:00 Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com:
On 11.03.2014, 1:32 Jon wrote:
The interface showed various buttons that when clicked would populate the edit summary input. e.g. "Fixed typos/grammar" or "Added links")
I wanted to discuss whether this is a good idea?
Russian Wikipedia was doing that for ages to everyone's satisfaction. The only problem is where to cram them in, but that's solvable.
Hebrew and Polish Wikipedias are doing it for ages, too, and probably some other languages.
In fact, numerous people complained that VisualEditor breaks this feature. Editors don't care whether it's a local custom gadget or something else - for all they care, it's a feature and VE breaks it.
Anyway, it would be a lovely feature to productize and make available for all languages, for both mobile and desktop interfaces. The code is basically there - just take the gadget from one of the Wikipedias that currently use it and package it as an extension.
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