On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
I should note there is one possibility for change --
It's been sometimes suggested to change the summary fields from a small, one-line field to a larger, potentially multi-line field. If this were done, then hitting enter in the summary field would just add a line break.
However I must say I'm a bit reluctant on that myself. But if there's a lot of interest in moving that direction, we can talk about it.
I was actually thinking of adding that as an option, for sites that like more verbose summaries, after we had un-hardcoded the maximum length. Max summary length is most reasonably a policy issue that should be decided per-wiki. And needless to say, if your max summary length is 10,000 and you really mean that, you don't want to provide a one-line field.
See the fun list of summary-length-related entries: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=4714&hide_resol...
Neat, didn't know about any of those.