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Mention genfixes in edit summary
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Currently the default edit summary is

<foobar> using [[WP:AWB|AWB]]

When genfixes are enabled, it would be much better if the edit summary instead read

<foobar>, and [[WP:GENFIXES|general fixes]] using [[WP:AWB|AWB]]

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Headbomb triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 26 2017, 5:44 PM
Headbomb moved this task from Backlog to General fixes on the AutoWikiBrowser board.
Headbomb moved this task from General fixes to Edit summary on the AutoWikiBrowser board.

The extra text should only be added if the general fixes have made a change somewhere, not if they were merely enabled. I currently switch the edit summary dropdown after reviewing the diff of every edit, to choose between "Typo fixing, replaced: foo → bar" if there are no general fixes and "Typo/[[WP:AWB/GF|general]] fixes, replaced: foo → bar" if there are some.

Would the extra text be visible in the edit summary box, and therefore editable before I click "Save", or would it be stuck on automatically in the same way as "using AWB"? I sometimes undo the general fixes to simplify the diff, particularly if my typo fix needs explaining in the edit summary, so I would need to be able to remove the "and general fixes" part.

I'm not sure that the extra text should start with "comma + and", as there will be cases where this spoils the sense of the rest of the edit summary. I haven't thought of a good solution to this. One example using the current software: I give some of my typo fixes the edit summary "replaced: foo → bar - in a quote, but I'm assuming this was a copying error" - and I have to remember to append punctuation so that it doesn't say "...a copying error using AWB", which isn't what I meant.

I agree that we should only have a mention of genfixes in the edit summary if genfixes are done.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Nov 22 2022, 5:18 PM