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.
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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).