The problem is, users sometimes include violations of policy (i.e.
personal attacks) in their edit summaries. Allowing them to edit them
would render this audit trail worthless.
John Lee
([[en:User:Johnleemk]])
Nick Triantos wrote:
True, but the comment itself is not really part of
that audit trail,
it's just a note that came along for the ride. The majority of
comments in the wiki that I administer are blank, if people wanted to
go and add a comment, I'd be all for that...
cheers,
-Nick
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Nov 25, 2004, at 5:29 AM, Nick Pisarro wrote:
I recently upgraded our MediaWiki run site to
1.3.7. In a fit of
programming frenzy, I have implemented a new feature; the ability to
edit
the summary and Minor Edit flag of an article revision.
I would strongly, strongly recommend against this. The edit history
is an audit trail, and should as much as possible not be allowed to
be tampered with.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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