--- David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
If we're going to have a rollback button, I have a request: a text
box
for a meaningful summary next to it. It can start filled with the present default summary, but make it easy to make a rollback
meaningful.
David's idea is something I decide (but never get around) to ask for every time I use the rollback feature. It would make the feature much more flexible and also make us sysops look a bit less like a lot of cold bastards who can't be bothered explaining why they are reverting something. So I would like to ask the developers to please consider this. Thanks muchly.
Zero.
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zero 0000 wrote:
David's idea [of adding a textbox for an edit summary to the "rollback" feature] is something I decide (but never get around) to ask for every time I use the rollback feature. It would make the feature much more flexible and also make us sysops look a bit less like a lot of cold bastards who can't be bothered explaining why they are reverting something. So I would like to ask the developers to please consider this. Thanks muchly.
While I sympathise with your thinking, from a development point of view it seems redundant. If you want an edit summary field, you can always revert the non-sysop way. The rollback link is so powerful because it is just that -- a link -- and because such a link can be placed in lots of places (recent changes, user contribs, diffs, etc.). Text boxes for an edit summary would clutter up all these pages, or you would have an extra pageview for the text box, which defeats the purpose of the quick & easy rollback link, and you might just as well use the non-sysop way.
Timwi
On 07/23/04 13:33, Timwi wrote:
zero 0000 wrote:
David's idea [of adding a textbox for an edit summary to the "rollback" feature] is something I decide (but never get around) to ask for every time I use the rollback feature. It would make the feature much more flexible and also make us sysops look a bit less like a lot of cold bastards who can't be bothered explaining why they are reverting something. So I would like to ask the developers to please consider this. Thanks muchly.
While I sympathise with your thinking, from a development point of view it seems redundant. If you want an edit summary field, you can always revert the non-sysop way. The rollback link is so powerful because it is just that -- a link -- and because such a link can be placed in lots of places (recent changes, user contribs, diffs, etc.). Text boxes for an edit summary would clutter up all these pages, or you would have an extra pageview for the text box, which defeats the purpose of the quick & easy rollback link, and you might just as well use the non-sysop way.
Er. You are indeed correct.
- d.