I disagree. There is no "chain" made of summaries. They are just a text in a table that can be altered. It's just that there is no feature which would allow that.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:27 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
