Kalan wrote:
2008/3/12, Platonides platonides@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.