[to:wikien-l, to:wikitech-l] Axel Boldt wrote:

I would like to propose that we make filling out the summary field mandatory on ever edit. Reasons:

• it makes the job of vandals and vandal bots harder, since they have

to come up with a meaningful summary each time.

• it makes the history page of an article vastly more useful; now I

often find myself employing the bisection method to find out when a particular bit of information was inserted.

Filling in the summary field is in general a good thing to do, but sometimes I find it stupid because the work it put in writing the notice for the summary field is more work than the change of the article.

A pulldown menu whit some default comments seems a good way.

More options to follow close the actions of not registerd users would be very nice. So that you can put a namelabel to a IP-adress, for those IP-users who you can trust be have the bad idea to not login. You can also use it to label proxyservers, so you see directly in RC that a ip-adress is a proxyserver. Now you have to look every ip up, but it are mostly the same who come back and give trouble.

I posted this to wikien-l, since this feature would best be implemented as an option that other language wikis could switch on if desired.

I think all Wikipedia's would like more options to better view what is happening.

Giskart