2014-11-13 17:16 GMT+02:00 Antoine Musso <[email protected]>: > 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. >
Indeed - I am somewhat surprised by James's firm opposition. Is it about tracking and preventing vandalism, or is it something deeper? Vandalism would be a big deal if everybody could edit everybody's summaries, but if a user can only edit one's own summaries, this shouldn't be a problem. (And maybe sysops could edit everybody's summaries.) This little change in the "ethos" doesn't seem like a serious price to pay for giving a good-faith user an opportunity to fix a spelling error that she noticed a moment after pushing "Save". Don't Wikipedians love fixing spelling errors, especially their own? :) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
