On 10/26/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Earle Martin wrote:
On 26/10/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
It's a nice idea, but after a few weeks of everyone being good about it, I predict seeing lots and lots of edit summaries consisting of "."
That should be a warnable offense.
Why not make blank edit summaries a "warnable offense", then? It'd be essentially the same thing.
A lot more technically friendly if the software requires them to enter "something" first; random people who aren't Wikipedia-familiar will understand a message popping up with a little paperclip saying "I've noticed you didn't enter an edit summary, these are important and required before we can enter the updated data".