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.
---- Justin Folvarcik
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Helder . helder.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Derric Atzrott datzrott@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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