• This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50872 ***

ignatzmice.wiki wrote:

I agree with kipod's comments at bug 50872, this bug is not a duplicate if that one. This would be a very useful feature (if rather resource-intensive).

You're right, this isn't a duplicate; I'm re-opening and titling it to be clearer.

A user at it.wp wonders: if VE could pre-populate the summary box, could it also auto-add the text that was added, in case of very short additions? i.e., if someone added a parameter to a template, could it automatically detect what was added and write it in the edit summary? Thanks.

(In reply to comment #4)

A user at it.wp wonders: if VE could pre-populate the summary box, could it
also auto-add the text that was added, in case of very short additions? i.e.,
if someone added a parameter to a template, could it automatically detect
what was added and write it in the edit summary? Thanks.

Yes, in theory, but in my opinion, that's a separate bug. Filed as bug 52859.

(Thanks Matthew!)

• Bug 56891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Isn't this the current behavior (for various meanings of "section editing")?

(In reply to Elitre from comment #8)

Isn't this the current behavior (for various meanings of "section editing")?

No. This is asking for VE-MW to insert the name of the section edited if only one section was edited, even if the editor was launched from a page-level link. Doing it when the user clicks a section edit link was bug 50872 and is indeed done. Not doing it when the user clicks a section edit link and then edits outside the link is bug 58488.

Curret behavior in production:

• click on Edit on a section on a page
• make changes to that section - click Save
• Save dialog box - 'Edit summary' box will pre-populated with the title of a section that was edited:

/* Section 3 */

• 'Review your changes' will have an additional pointer to the section that was edited:

Preview of edit summary:
(→‎Section 3: )

The scope of the bug is bigger than that?

The scope of the bug is bigger than that?

Yes:

• When the user edits text in other sections too, this hint shouldn't appear.
• When the user opens VE using the "Edit" tab at the top and only edits one section, the appropriate hint should appear.

In T53903#959238, @matmarex wrote:

The scope of the bug is bigger than that?

Yes:

• When the user edits text in other sections too, this hint shouldn't appear.
• When the user opens VE using the "Edit" tab at the top and only edits one section, the appropriate hint should appear.

what he said.
with VE, the "edit" links to the right (or left, in rtl wikis) of the section title are misleading: unlike wikieditor, where clicking one of those will limit the changes to this section, with VE there no such limitation.

IMO, the current VE behavior is wrong and misleading (T60488 agrees with this view). when looking at page history, i don't care which thingy the editor clicked to start the editor - i want to know which changes this edit contains.
if you do not _know_ that the changes are limited to some section, please don't tell me they are. (and, on the other hand, if you _do_ know such a thing, it would be nice if you told me).

peace.