Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:44 UTC

Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

Wikimedia migrated from Bugzilla to Phabricator. Bug reports are handled in Wikimedia Phabricator.
This static website is read-only and for historical purposes. It is not possible to log in and except for displaying bug reports and their history, links might be broken. See T3279, the corresponding Phabricator task for complete and up-to-date bug report information.
First Last Prev Next    This bug is not in your last search results.
Bug 1279 - Allow null edits to fill in missing edit summaries
Allow null edits to fill in missing edit summaries
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Page editing (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement with 3 votes (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
:
Depends on:
Blocks:
  Show dependency tree / graph
 
Reported: 2005-01-07 18:10 UTC by Joost R. Meerten
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:04 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Description Joost R. Meerten 2005-01-07 18:10:41 UTC 
If the last edit to an article was made by me, and if that edit had an empty
edit summary, allow a null edit of that revision to put in the edit summary
included with it.

Rationale: empty edit summaries are bad. It should be easy to correct my mistake
if I forget one.

Alternative: allow replacing the summary even if it was not empty. Possible
drawback: malicious and untraceable changing of the summary to troll with.
Comment 1 Casey Brown 2007-09-18 01:34:08 UTC 
As with the other "edit your eit summary" bugs, this is probably a WONTFIX.  (MediaWiki developers have said many times that they do not intend to make this feature.)
Comment 2 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2007-09-18 01:36:39 UTC 
I agree with the WONTFIX.  Part of wiki editing is having your screwups visible to all.  ;)  It would cause confusion if you can't be sure whether an edit summary was actually made at the time of the edit or not.
Comment 3 Eric 2007-09-19 02:56:56 UTC 
I had a suggestion in a similar vein if you're interested: bug 10723 (apparently squashed).
--Eric
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
First Last Prev Next    This bug is not in your last search results.

Navigation
Links