Last modified: 2009-01-23 17:23:26 UTC
Multiline statements are invalid in edit summaries - the newlines are silently discarded. As such, it is confusing and entirely unnecessary to use a <textarea> for the reason input in [[Special:MovePage]]; it should be an <input>.
See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16921#c3
Other approach: replace \n with space on commit.
Created attachment 5723 [details] Patch to change the <textarea> to an <input>. Against r45848 Hmn. Attached patch anyway, this is really trivial unless I've missed a glaringly obvious dependency. I don't really follow Brion's comment about it being a "usability regression": why would we be encouraging long comments (and then silently reformatting them) for moves, but not for other log summaries? There should be consistency here: either *all* summary inputs should be textareas, or they should *all* be inputs. Having one different gives the impression that the log summary is somehow different, when in fact that is not the case at all; they're treated *exactly* the same, and the same limitations and issues apply.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13627 ***