2008/3/12, Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.