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Bug 18995 - Option to require comment for non-editing actions
Option to require comment for non-editing actions
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-05-29 02:25 UTC by Gurch
Modified: 2014-11-03 08:41 UTC (History)
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Description Gurch 2009-05-29 02:25:32 UTC
It would be nice if an (sitewide) option could be set in MediaWiki that would reject attempts to carry out non-editing actions such as block, delete, protect and move without filling in the "comment" field, instead returning an error message with a friendly reminder that not filling this in is a PITA for the rest of us mere mortals.

Too often I've seen an innocuous-looking page title which on attempted creation presents the message "The page title you have tried to create has been protected from creation. The reason given is."; too often I've seen pages deleted with no explanation provided and have to find and ask someeone to send me the deleted text just so that I can see why it was deleted. Similar problems exist for other actions. Asking nicely unfortunately doesn't seem to work.
Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2014-11-03 08:41:31 UTC
If anybody wants to work on this, the existing logic in Core is around here:
./includes/EditPage.php:	$status->fatal( 'missingcommenttext' );

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