Steve Summit wrote: >Martijn Hoekstra wrote: >> Wow, that escalated quickly. How did we go from "hey, what's the deal >>with this?" To YOURE BURNING THE WIKI in a few posts? > >Easy: because it's a hard question, with excellent arguments on >both sides. > >Clearly, people are going to make typos in edit summaries from >time to time, and clearly, making a null edit to "correct" the >summary is a stupid kludge, so clearly, editing of edit summaries >should be allowed. > >But clearly, allowing editing of edit summaries would introduce >all new kinds of abuse, so clearly, I cannot choose the goblet in >front of you, I mean, editing of edit summaries must remain impossible.
Yep. As Helder notes in this thread, anyone interested in edit summaries issues broadly should focus on concrete (realistic) proposals that address discrete issues. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13937 is a good example, in my opinion. And it bears repeating that yes, spam and other abuse prevention mechanisms are hard-required from the start of a project like this to be deployed to Wikimedia wikis. Edit summaries already see abuse and mis-use. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
