I think allowing post-facto modification of edit summaries in the very limited case where the edit was done by the current user, the edit summary is currently blank, and the new summary is non-blank could be allowed with only small amounts wiki-burning.
Review tools would have to be updated so that janitors can patrol the newly-added edit summaries, since that might happen long after the actual content of the edit was patrolled. And for a full log of actions performed we'd need to record the timestamp of the summary edit in a field separate from the timestamp of the revision itself. But that's a decent amount of work (and UI) to implement what is now a very limited use case. Editing commit summaries works in git (and in gerrit) because there is a clear boundary between "private work" and "published (merged) work". I can rebase/edit the summary up until my work is published/merged. I think the wiki would be benefited by the adoption of more of these git-inspired workflows... but that's a whole 'nuther discussion. --scott On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Mmm... the fact that something as odd as > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Dummy_edit even exists says something > about the need for such a feature. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > 2014-11-13 21:06 GMT+02:00 James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org>: > >> On 13 November 2014 19:04, Derric Atzrott <datzr...@alizeepathology.com> >> wrote: >> >> > > Am I missing something? I just tried making a null edit and it didn't >> > > change the edit summary. >> > >> > It doesn't change the edit summary; it was suggested you make a null >> > edit, but leave an edit summary for that null edit. This way you >> > can make an edit that only serves the purpose of saying "Hey the >> > previous edit had a wrong edit summary, this is what I really did." >> > >> >> A null edit doesn't save; you probably mean an inconsequential / trivial >> edit, instead? >> >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- (http://cscott.net) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
