[WikiEN-l] Re: Proposal: make summary mandatory

[Giskart]

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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