Le 13/11/2014 16:16, Antoine Musso a écrit :
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.
Talking with my wife about it, she suggested that people could review the history of articles and amend the summary to better reflect the change that has been made in the past.
Often people forget to fill the summary, and browsing the history leave you with little clue has to what the edit was for and thus force you to review the diff :-D
So yeah, that could be seen as a way to better describe every edits. But that is a huge burden that distracts folks from actually writing content!