On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:03:39 -0800, Nick Triantos <nick(a)triantos.com> wrote:
Perhaps a useful compromise would be, if Nick P is
willing, to add
another flag, which specifies whether users can edit their own edit
summaries, or whether this is reserved for SysOps only. For my intranet
use of Mediawiki, I would leave it open to all, for something like
wikipedia, the wikipedia administrators could enforce that this be used
only by SysOps.
That sounds like a good compromise, and remember that with the new
User & Group Rights system [is that going live in 1.4?] it needn't
even be "all sysops", since there can be an edit_summaries right,
which could be granted only to a select few if that was felt relevant
and worth-while.
However, with the feature not updating the RC log [am I right in
thinking watchlists are also pulled from this, rather than the actual
histories?], the value of the feature seems limited anyway. But in
combination with other things like selective revision undeletion, I
can conceive of uses in some of the more unusual applications of the
software (they may not seem like a "true" wiki, but even the existence
of a Talk: namespace was pushing that envelope once, and in the end
it's up to each site-admin what they do with the software available).
Of course, the more things like this we add "in case someone wants
it", the more bloated the system becomes, but without a well-developed
extension mechanism [and where would the hooks that allowed this be?]
the alternative seems to be someone maintaining a patch so it
continues to apply cleanly...
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]