Last modified: 2008-03-02 09:42:16 UTC
On history, contribs and RC pages, when action is move/block/protect, MediaWiki displays this inside <span class=comment>: "<action description>: <user summary>", e.g. "moved A to B: some explanation..." For some reason this whole comment gets truncated to 255 bytes. If user summary itself was close to 255 bytes, then user summary gets truncated. As a result, one has to open the Logs to see the full summary. The problem happens much more often on non-Latin alphabet projects, with 2 or more bytes per most used characters. Solution: please do not truncate this comment field. P.S. While adding this bug I could only select "1.12-svn", while Wikimedia projects already say "1.13alpha".
The field is 255 bytes long.
Duping this to bug 4715 for increasing the lenght. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4715 ***
This bug is NOT about increasing the length of rev_comment database field. It's about DISPLAYING rev_comment (already stored in Revision table): it is not displayed properly on certain pages.
You're thoroughly mistaken. You mention that the "comment" as you call it is truncated on move/block/protect and that you need to go to [[Special:Log]] to see the full summary. That is the flaw. The message in the log is NOT the same as what is in rev_comment. rev_comment is the comment for the REVISION, the full message you are talking about is NOT rev_comment, it's log_comment and the reason that one has more info than the other is because they are two different messages. log_comment is shorter because it's also paired with log_user and log_action. So rev_comment needs to include more text as part of the comment and therefore becomes longer and ends up truncated. Therefore, your bug is directly caused by rev_comment's byte length, there is no truncating of comments other than what the database does.
