On Nov 13, 2014 12:45 PM, "Nathan" <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I can see it being useful in two circumstances:
1) As part of the oversight right, in order to edit an edit summary
without
hiding the entire revision
2) A right of a user to edit their own edit summaries, if the edit summary
is blank
Since it's possible and at least some people are interested in it, I don't
see the downside of making it available in MediaWiki even if most
Wikimedia
projects might not use it.
That sounds more like a good argument for making it an extension, rather
than a core feature.
--bawolff