Last modified: 2012-01-06 22:44:12 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 T10342, the corresponding Phabricator task for complete and up-to-date bug report information.
Bug 8342 - Default, section header Edit Summaries should be grayed to encourage more text there
Default, section header Edit Summaries should be grayed to encourage more tex...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Page editing (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
:
Depends on:
Blocks:
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2006-12-21 03:42 UTC by Tsee
Modified: 2012-01-06 22:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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


Attachments

Description Tsee 2006-12-21 03:42:08 UTC
Many, perhaps a majority, of edit summaries that contain section headers have no
other text -- people treat the automatically filled in section headers as good
enough an edit summary. Perhaps the autofilled-in text could be grayed so that
people will see it's not the recommended style.
Comment 1 Brian Jason Drake 2007-03-23 00:42:24 UTC
I would go further and state that there is no real difference between stating what page was edited and stating 
what section was edited, i.e. if they just use the autofilled-in text, then it should be treated as a blank edit 
summary. In particular, if they have it set in their preferences, they should be reminded to add a summary.
Comment 2 Rob Church 2007-08-03 22:15:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> summary. In particular, if they have it set in their preferences, they should
> be reminded to add a summary.

So far as I know, they will be.
Comment 3 Chad H. 2009-02-02 17:17:09 UTC
There's no way to color only a part of a text box. Also, per Rob's comment: you should already be prompted for an edit summary if you have the setting enabled and only a default summary exists. Suggest INVALID? Can't really do much here.

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.


Navigation
Links