Im not saying that it shouldnt be allowed, what I am saying is if we are
going to brainstorm on the topic, these issues are the most obvious and
critical problems. I saw scotts last email and think that given those
limited constraints its possible without too much fuss.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:41 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cananian(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
I think allowing post-facto modification of edit
summaries in the very
limited case where the edit was done by the current user, the edit
summary is currently blank, and the new summary is non-blank could be
allowed with only small amounts wiki-burning.
Review tools would have to be updated so that janitors can patrol the
newly-added edit summaries, since that might happen long after the
actual content of the edit was patrolled. And for a full log of
actions performed we'd need to record the timestamp of the summary
edit in a field separate from the timestamp of the revision itself.
But that's a decent amount of work (and UI) to implement what is now a
very limited use case.
Editing commit summaries works in git (and in gerrit) because there is
a clear boundary between "private work" and "published (merged)
work".
I can rebase/edit the summary up until my work is published/merged.
I think the wiki would be benefited by the adoption of more of these
git-inspired workflows... but that's a whole 'nuther discussion.
--scott
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Mmm... the fact that something as odd as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Dummy_edit even exists says something
about the need for such a feature.
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2014-11-13 21:06 GMT+02:00 James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On 13 November 2014 19:04, Derric Atzrott
<datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com
> wrote:
>
> > > Am I missing something? I just tried making a null edit and it
didn't
> change the edit summary.
It doesn't change the edit summary; it was suggested you make a null
edit, but leave an edit summary for that null edit. This way you
can make an edit that only serves the purpose of saying "Hey the
previous edit had a wrong edit summary, this is what I really did."
A null edit doesn't save; you probably mean an inconsequential / trivial
edit, instead?
J.
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