Its the same reason you cannot go back and modify changes to a revision.
Subsequent changes create new revisions, because edit summaries are not
versioned its not possible to change them and maintain the chain
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
In Facebook it's possible to edit posts and
comments after posting after a
lot of users asked for it.
Why isn't it possible to change MediaWiki edit summaries after posting?
I tried looking for it in Bugzilla; I expected to find a two-digit bug for
it, but I couldn't find any at all. Of course it's possible that I didn't
look well enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary just says that they can't
be changed, but doesn't link to a discussion.
So is there any reason not to do it?
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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