On 13 November 2014 16:03, Helder . <helder.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Derric Atzrott > <datzr...@alizeepathology.com> wrote: > >> Indeed - I am somewhat surprised by James's firm opposition. > > > > I tend to agree with James on this one in that if the edit summaries > > are to be modified then they need a revision history. >
Indeed; that's the core tenet of how MediaWiki is designed. All changes are open. All changes are logged. Al(most al)l logs are visible. Changes can't be redacted, except by super-power-users (sysops) who understand what they're doing. Changes can't be removed from the records, except by super-ultra-mega-power users (developers) who have database access and have a really good reason. > >> Typos in edit summary are fixed by releasing an errata corrige in a > >> subsequent dummy edit. > > > > I question whether or not the ability to change edit summaries is > > really a needed feature though. I would prefer the approach that > > Nemo recommend of making a dummy edit. > This would work a little better if we had the feature requested on > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33943 > (Grouping edit history). But I don't see a reason against > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13937 > (Correcting edit summaries (if own, last, & recent)) > Thanks for those links. However, for a change like this, I would expect (at a minimum) a MediaWiki.org RfC. A bug isn't sufficient discussion, really. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
