[Fwd: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Make summaries mandatory] - WikiDE-l

30 Apr 2005

The Cunctator schlug auf wikipedia-l vor, einen Eintrag im Feld 
"Zusammenfassung" für nicht als "klein" markierte Anderungen
obligatorisch zu 
machen. Alphax hat per JavaScript einen Warnhinweis für solche Fälle gebastelt. 
Ich finde wir sollten das mal testweise ausprobieren.

Kurt

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Make summaries mandatory
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:51:31 +0930
From: Alphax &lt;alphasigmax(a)gmail.com&gt;
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
References: &lt;BE969E05.375B6%cunctator(a)kband.com&gt;

The Cunctator wrote:
...
  Looking at a scroll of Recent Changes, I noticed that
usage of the summary
 field has plummeted. I strongly recommend a simple change: making summaries
 mandatory for edits not checked as "minor". This is non-obtrusive and
 helpful. An example of a wiki that uses this feature is at
 http://www.technomanifestos.net. 
The monobook.js file I'm using (derived from [[User:ABCD/monobook.js]]
and [[User:Lupo/monobook.js]] has a Javascript alert for when the Edit
Summary is left blank (or doesn't change for section editing).

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