On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Moiz Syed msyed@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is how I feel when I read threads like this.
In my experiences, a lot of edit summaries already are "canned", the field is left blank and is populated by an automated summary about a section. And that didnt break the internet.
There are 3 existing types of automated elements in edit summaries:
1) If you click [edit] on a section heading (rather than for the whole page), it will automatically insert this in the wikimarkup-mode edit-summary text-area: /* section title */ which transforms into this in watchlists/RecentChanges/etc: (→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summarysection title: )
2) the 4 types of fully automatic editsummary (list herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Automatic_edit_summaries#The_different_automatic_edit_summaries), eg. *(← https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Automatic_edit_summariesBlanked the page)*
3) the "Tags" that gets appended after the edit-summary, eg. (Tag https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Tags: VisualEditorhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor )
HTH. Quiddity