On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Yusuke Matsubara whym@whym.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
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.
A bit different, but there is an extension that enables "supplementing" additional non-modifiable edit summaries: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionCommentSupplement
It was contributed (without a Bugzilla request) by Burthsceh, a volunteer at Japanese Wikipedia, prompted by the necessity to fix attributions made in edit summaries (for reused texts). [1] I don't think it has been extensively reviewed, though.
With that approach, you could effectively modify an edit summary by appending a modified one and rev-deleting the original one.
[1] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%95%E6%88%B8%E7%AB%AF/subj/%E5...
This is a very good idea, in itself, to help fix problems with attribution, especially wrt 'print' editions (PDF export).
It might also be used to avoid undesirable attribution notices in the article body, where the text is a copy of a GFDL/CC external webpage, to be used for once-off imports (e.g. bio page on personal website), rather than large scale import/reuse like FOLDOC/EB1911/etc.