On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Moiz Syed <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is how I feel when I read threads like this. > > In my experiences, a lot of edit summaries already are "canned", the field > is left blank and is populated by an automated summary about a section. And > that didnt break the internet. > > There are 3 existing types of automated elements in edit summaries: 1) If you click [edit] on a section heading (rather than for the whole page), it will automatically insert this in the wikimarkup-mode edit-summary text-area: /* section title */ which transforms into this in watchlists/RecentChanges/etc: (→ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary>section title: ) 2) the 4 types of fully automatic editsummary (list here<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Automatic_edit_summaries#The_different_automatic_edit_summaries>), eg. *(← <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Automatic_edit_summaries>Blanked the page)* 3) the "Tags" that gets appended after the edit-summary, eg. (Tag <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Tags>: VisualEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor> ) HTH. Quiddity
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