Its the same reason you cannot go back and modify changes to a revision. Subsequent changes create new revisions, because edit summaries are not versioned its not possible to change them and maintain the chain
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
