https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34961
--- Comment #19 from Aaron Schulz <aschulz4...@gmail.com> 2012-03-09 20:14:19 UTC --- I can see an argument to have two sets of messages: one for logs and one for snippets (like history comments). I'd be surprised if people made manual summaries that *had* to say "I changed X to Y" or "Person A changed X to Y"...in any language. People often (almost always on en) make edit summaries where they put in things like "fixed spelling" or other subject-less fragments. On the other hand, it's possible in some language projects that people use sentences more like "Multiple spelling errors were fixed." or "This dubious section had to be removed." and such. It would be interesting to see examples (wiki projects) where such summary fragments are considered ugly and people avoid them. It would empirically bolster the case for the 1.19 change to log comments in history pages. Overall, I lean towards keeping it as is in 1.19. If some projects don't care about summary comment grammar, it won't HURT to have a few grammatically *correct* entries. OTOH, for wikis that do, it sucks to have uncontrollably grammatically bad summaries. The only problem in EN and the like is that it is redundant, which is hardly a problem. The complaint about "taking up useful space" is a bit of a red-herring. I think it's a database layout issue that we are restricted to 255 bytes which should someday be fixed separately. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
