Allow null edits to fill in missing edit summaries
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	• bzimport
	Jan 7 2005, 6:10 PM

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Author: JoostMeerten

Description:
If the last edit to an article was made by me, and if that edit had an empty
edit summary, allow a null edit of that revision to put in the edit summary
included with it.

Rationale: empty edit summaries are bad. It should be easy to correct my mistake
if I forget one.

Alternative: allow replacing the summary even if it was not empty. Possible
drawback: malicious and untraceable changing of the summary to troll with.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz1279

Title	Reference	Author	Source Branch	Dest Branch
Bug: T327950	repos/commtech/autosuggest-sitelink!29	s-mukuti	T327950	main
T327951	repos/commtech/autosuggest-sitelink!27	s-mukuti	T327951	main
Avoid nesting div in span in radio button label	repos/commtech/autosuggest-sitelink!23	samwilson	nested-div	main
Update references for search platform	repos/data-engineering/airflow-dags-scap-search!1	ebernhardson	work/ebernhardson/configure-for-search-platform	main

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 8:09 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.

• bzimport set Reference to bz1279.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Jan 7 2005, 6:10 PM

bugs wrote:

As with the other "edit your eit summary" bugs, this is probably a WONTFIX. (MediaWiki developers have said many times that they do not intend to make this feature.)

ayg wrote:

I agree with the WONTFIX. Part of wiki editing is having your screwups visible to all. ;) It would cause confusion if you can't be sure whether an edit summary was actually made at the time of the edit or not.

e.martinson wrote:

I had a suggestion in a similar vein if you're interested: bug 10723 (apparently squashed).
--Eric

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