[WikiEN-l] Most useless edit summary ever?

[Guettarda]

On 10/16/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/16/07, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Sometimes I wonder how these RFA "requirements" originated? Who was
> the first to oppose for lack of edit summaries, who was the first to
> oppose for no work in project space? These were the ones that the rest
> of the "voters" joined in on.
>
> It's interesting that sometimes someone tries to start an RFA
> "requirement" only to get jumped on by the rest of the "voters". Some
> of these are opposes for "wiki breaks" and "self noms".


I would look in early to mid 2005.  IIRC, the idea was starting to catch on
around the time of my RFA that people SHOULD use edit summaries.  But it was
still a while before it became something of a requirement.