I think this is a great idea and has always baffled me that you can't. I'm also a little confused by James comment. Maintaining an edit history of edit summaries seems overkill. As I understand it edit summaries are for aiding other editors.
If we are worried about losing important information, maybe only the original editor and trusted editors with certain privileges should be able to edit them. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 13, 2014 12:45 PM, "Nathan" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I can see it being useful in two circumstances: >> >> 1) As part of the oversight right, in order to edit an edit summary > without >> hiding the entire revision >> 2) A right of a user to edit their own edit summaries, if the edit summary >> is blank >> >> Since it's possible and at least some people are interested in it, I don't >> see the downside of making it available in MediaWiki even if most > Wikimedia >> projects might not use it. >> > > That sounds more like a good argument for making it an extension, rather > than a core feature. > > --bawolff > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
