As a longtime administrator of a MediaWiki site, I do not endorse this in
any way. There is absolutely no legitimate need to change edit summaries,
and the potential for this to be used for vandalism and trolling is
extensive. This is why users are encouraged to preview their edits, and I
see no reason to make provisions for people who refuse to do so.
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Justin Folvarcik
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Helder . <helder.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Derric Atzrott
<datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com> wrote:
Indeed -
I am somewhat surprised by James's firm opposition.
I tend to agree with James on this one in that if the edit summaries
are to be modified then they need a revision history.
Typos in edit summary are fixed by releasing an
errata corrige in a
subsequent dummy edit.
I question whether or not the ability to change edit summaries is
really a needed feature though. I would prefer the approach that
Nemo recommend of making a dummy edit.
This would work a little better if we had
the feature requested on
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33943
(Grouping edit history). But I don't see a reason against
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13937
(Correcting edit summaries (if own, last, & recent))
Helder
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