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allow to add section with no heading and custom edit summary
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Steps to reproduce:

  1. I want to add {{welcome}} template to someone's user page. This template has a heading already, so I am not filling in the name of the heading. Yet I want to specify an edit summary.

Expected results:

  1. The API provides a means to specify an edit summary, which does add any headings.

Actual results:

  1. The API does not provide any means to specify an edit summary, which does add any headings.

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Gryllida created this task.Dec 10 2018, 5:43 AM
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Aklapper added a comment.Dec 10 2018, 11:31 AM

Thanks for structuring your task!
Which specific API call with which parameters have you tried which comes closest? Probably something on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit ? What exactly?

Anomie moved this task from Unsorted to Non-core-API stuff on the MediaWiki-Action-API board.Dec 10 2018, 3:13 PM
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The API action=edit simply passes the 'summary' and 'sectiontitle' in to EditPage's 'wpSummary' and 'wpSectionTitle'. The behavior would need to be changed there.

MarkAHershberger subscribed.Dec 10 2018, 6:21 PM

As someone else noted on the support desk, there is already an "appendtext" parameter.

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Kizule moved this task from Backlog to Edit summary on the MediaWiki-Page-editing board.Aug 31 2019, 10:40 AM
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