2014-11-13 17:16 GMT+02:00 Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr>fr>:
Le 13/11/2014 13:15, Amir E. Aharoni a écrit :
In Facebook it's possible to edit posts and
comments after posting after
a
lot of users asked for it.
Why isn't it possible to change MediaWiki edit summaries after posting?
I tried looking for it in Bugzilla; I expected to find a two-digit bug
for
it, but I couldn't find any at all. Of course
it's possible that I didn't
look well enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary just says that they
can't
be changed, but doesn't link to a
discussion.
So is there any reason not to do it?
I am not sure there is any point in adding a summary history for each
revision. That sounds like a useless overhead for a corner case usage.
Indeed - I am somewhat surprised by James's firm opposition.
Is it about tracking and preventing vandalism, or is it something deeper?
Vandalism would be a big deal if everybody could edit everybody's
summaries, but if a user can only edit one's own summaries, this shouldn't
be a problem. (And maybe sysops could edit everybody's summaries.)
This little change in the "ethos" doesn't seem like a serious price to pay
for giving a good-faith user an opportunity to fix a spelling error that
she noticed a moment after pushing "Save". Don't Wikipedians love fixing
spelling errors, especially their own? :)