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Edit summary box should be a multiline input
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Author: avarab

Description:
The edit page should be changed to accommodate larger edit summaries:

  • The text input area needs to be changed fron <inputbox type="text"> to <textarea>

Optional:

  • The textarea should auto-expand when entering a larger summary (JS)
  • The textarea should have some sort of live-preview of the summary (since it uses a limited subset of wikisyntax) (JS)
  • The textarea should use autocomplete, most (all) browsers don't have this on for <textarea>

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 OpenNoneT6714 Epic: Increasing the length of the edit summary
 OpenNoneT6716 Edit summary box should be a multiline input
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 ResolvedNoneT166798 Decide whether back-compat views for upcoming major schema changes will be provided in the Labs replicas
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 ResolvedMarosteguiT187089 Fix WMF schemas to not break when comment store goes WRITE_NEW
 DeclinedNoneT210935 Blank out remaining rev_comment fields on Wikimedia wikis
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 ResolvedPRODUCTION ERRORZabeT309148 Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1048: Column 'cuc_actor' cannot be nullFunction: MediaWiki\CheckUser\Hooks::updateCheckUserDataQuery: INSERT INTO `cu_changes` (cuc_namespace,cuc_title,cuc_minor,cuc_user,cuc_user_text,cuc_
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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:03 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.
• bzimport set Reference to bz4716.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Jan 22 2006, 8:45 AM
brion added a comment.Jan 22 2006, 7:50 PM

Using a <textarea> for summary will break keyboard workflow:
"enter" will no longer work to save.

• bzimport added a comment.Feb 10 2012, 3:55 PM

trevj wrote:

Disabling "Enter" to save may actually be a benefit, because editors are encouraged to use the 'Show preview' function:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing#Show_preview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Uw-preview
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:That%27s_why_we_preview,_kids

If this is changed, are there any related database limitations?

awight merged a task: T99944: Edit summary box should be a multiline input.May 21 2015, 7:38 PM
awight added subscribers: kaldari, awight, Aklapper.
Xeriphas1994 added a subscriber: Xeriphas1994.Feb 27 2016, 9:37 PM
Anomie renamed this task from The edit page should be changed to accommodate larger edit summaries to Edit summary box should be a multiline input.Mar 2 2018, 12:30 PM
Anomie added a subscriber: Anomie.

The title from T99944 was more descriptive, let's use that one.

• MichaelSchoenitzer_WMDE added a subscriber: • MichaelSchoenitzer_WMDE.Mar 2 2018, 3:01 PM
MGChecker added a project: MediaWiki-Comment-store.Nov 12 2018, 7:45 PM
MGChecker removed a project: MediaWiki-Page-editing.Nov 15 2018, 9:46 PM
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Krinkle added a subtask: T6715: Allow comments longer than 255 bytes.Feb 8 2019, 6:49 PM
DannyS712 updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 24 2019, 9:09 PM
RhinosF1 added a subscriber: RhinosF1.Oct 7 2019, 5:53 AM
JohanahoJ added a subscriber: JohanahoJ.May 18 2020, 10:32 AM
JohanahoJ removed a subscriber: JohanahoJ.Jul 7 2020, 9:28 PM
Aklapper removed a subscriber: Anomie.Oct 16 2020, 5:03 PM
Izno added a subtask: T208690: Create revision_commentindex on Wiki Replicas in Cloud VPS.Apr 27 2021, 4:47 PM
Izno added a subtask: T233004: Update CheckUser for actor and comment table.Apr 27 2021, 5:03 PM
Zabe changed the status of subtask T233004: Update CheckUser for actor and comment table from Stalled to Open.Mar 11 2022, 3:15 AM
Remagoxer added subscribers: brion, Remagoxer.Jun 2 2022, 11:26 AM
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Certes added a subscriber: Certes.Fri, Jun 17, 9:15 AM

Please don't worry about disabling Enter. On the rare occasions I press it, it's accidental (attempting to insert a newline into wikitext) and I have to revisit the edit. I expect others have similar experiences, and we want to encourage previewing or at least viewing a diff.

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