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Add plural support to "MediaWiki:Revertpage"
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Currently, the automatic edit summary that appears when reverting an edit (as defined at MediaWiki:Revertpage), says "Reverted edits by X to last revision by Y".

In some cases (maybe even most cases), the word "edits" is confusing, because only one edit is reverted.

Therefore, I suggest adding a new parameter to "MediaWiki:Revertpage", which defines the number of edits being reverted. In this way, the edit summary could say "edit" if only one edit is reverted, and "edits" if more than one edit is reverted.

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Reedy renamed this task from Add a new parameter to "MediaWiki:Revertpage" to Add plural support to "MediaWiki:Revertpage".May 19 2017, 7:23 PM
Nemo_bis triaged this task as Medium priority.May 20 2017, 2:29 PM
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Change 909706 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jon Harald Søby; author: Jon Harald Søby):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add PLURAL support for 'revertpage' messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/909706

Change 909706 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Add PLURAL support for 'revertpage' messages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/909706