Sounds like a good idea. Even if some people fill it with a single period, it will definitely increase the readability of RC. I admit to being a culprit; I often hit Alt-S without remembering to add an edit-summary. Perhaps we could make Alt-S move your focus to the summary field if it's empty, and only save if it's full?
This regular appearance of this suggestion inspired the newly-created Village Pump section for "perennial proposals". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28perennial_proposals%2...
SJ
On 4/28/05, The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com 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.
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