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

[tarquin]

  Daniel Mayer wrote:

>Not when fixing formatting. Having to fill-in an edit summary would 
>significantly slow me down so I definitely would object to having to perform 
>the needless keystrokes for these mundane changes. However, when I do make an 
>edit worth documenting I do so nearly every time and if anything I over 
>document. This should stay a 'rule to consider' for at least logged-in users.
>  
>
I'm pretty much the same as Mav. I make a lot of minor edits.
It's not too hard to hit TAB, type "typo" and press RETURN, but makign 
summaries mandatory would be a pain.

>It would be OK by me if this was a requirement for non-logged-in users (along 
>with taking-away their ability to mark edits as minor).
>
Agreed.

>... give non-logged-in users another 
>reason to log-in 
>
It's nice when IPs become named users. But some irritating users are 
wise to the fact that once they register we have a harder time banning 
them for bad behavior (both technically and as a matter of principle...).