[WikiEN-l] Reverting without reading - another example

[Earle Martin]

On 26/10/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> I don't expect them to "know all our rules and policies", but I *do*
> expect them to read the text "edit summary" (conveniently placed right
> next to the "save" button) and deduce that that's where they should
> place a summary of their edit.  I don't recall having to read policy
> pages to figure that out when I was new here.

A touch of logic in the engine that recognised a diff as a revert of
the previous edit (i.e., identical to the last-but-one revision) would
be useful. Then a summary-less revert could be rejected with the
message "edit reversions must be given a summary".

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Earle Martin
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