Martijn Hoekstra wrote:
Wow, that escalated quickly. How did we go from
"hey, what's the deal
with this?" To YOURE BURNING THE WIKI in a few posts?
Easy: because it's a hard question, with excellent arguments on
both sides.
Clearly, people are going to make typos in edit summaries from
time to time, and clearly, making a null edit to "correct" the
summary is a stupid kludge, so clearly, editing of edit summaries
should be allowed.
But clearly, allowing editing of edit summaries would introduce
all new kinds of abuse, so clearly, I cannot choose the goblet in
front of you, I mean, editing of edit summaries must remain impossible.
Yep.
As Helder notes in this thread, anyone interested in edit summaries issues
broadly should focus on concrete (realistic) proposals that address
discrete issues.
is a
good example, in my opinion.
And it bears repeating that yes, spam and other abuse prevention
mechanisms are hard-required from the start of a project like this to be
deployed to Wikimedia wikis. Edit summaries already see abuse and mis-use.
MZMcBride