Author: emddudley
Description:
It would be nice if the edit summary reminder preference could automatically
detect when no changes had been made to a page (a null edit) and proceed without
reminding the user.
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
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- Reference
- bz5365
Related Objects
Related Objects
- Mentioned In
- T394016: Check edit constraints on page preview
- Mentioned Here
- T157658: Factor out a backend from EditPage
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wegge wrote:
Closing as INVALID. Null edits in particular need an explanation, as they will
change the page in a way that wil not be apperant otherwise.
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emddudley wrote:
(In reply to comment #1)
Closing as INVALID. Null edits in particular need an explanation, as they will
change the page in a way that wil not be apperant otherwise.
Null edits do not appear in the edit history, and as such edit summaries are not
shown anyhow.
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wclark wrote:
Since this would involve running the (null) edited wikicode through a diff
anyway, should the edit summary behave more like the regular diff and show what
has changed? That might be a useful feature for comparing changes, although it
might also confuse people. It just seems like a waste to perform the comparison
(to determine if we're dealing with a null edit or not) and then to throw away
the information.
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Looking through the history of EditPage to document something as part of T157658; if anyone wants to find the relevant git commit (rather than svn) it is at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/b33cc4bb0902d405997ea3250fed905616c22f12