On Nov 13, 2014 12:31 PM, "Chad" innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu Nov 13 2014 at 8:27:08 AM Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 13, 2014 11:43 AM, "Derric Atzrott" <datzrott@alizeepathology.com
wrote:
Indeed - I am somewhat surprised by James's firm opposition.
I tend to agree with James on this one in that if the edit summaries are to be modified then they need a revision history.
Typos in edit summary are fixed by releasing an errata corrige in a subsequent dummy edit.
I question whether or not the ability to change edit summaries is really a needed feature though. I would prefer the approach that Nemo recommend of making a dummy edit.
For me it's less about vandalism et al. and more about the principle of revision tracking and audit trails. When you make an edit that revision is fixed and should not be able to be modified. This is one of the core principles that makes wikis work.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
+1. An edit summary represents something at a specific point in time.
Its
important to know the context of an edit at that time. Editing edit summaries allows someone to revise the context.
For comparision, how many revision control systems allow editing commit messages.
Git does. Of course it comes with all kinds of warning messages about how if you're working with others this is a terrible thing to do :)
-Chad
Id make the argument that modifying edit summaries in git is somewhat akin to taking a database dump of a mediawiki install, editing the dump, and re-importing it ;)
--bawolff