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Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Larger suggestions/Allow changing text written in the "Edit summary" after saving an edit

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Allow changing text written in the "Edit summary" after saving an edit

  • Problem: When a user makes an edit, they can use the edit summary (Help:Edit summary) to write something. However, he realizes that he has written something wrong but cannot correct it as he cannot edit the edit summary.
  • Proposed solution: Allow users to make an edit summary change after saving their edits to correct something they wrote wrong.
  • Who would benefit: All users would benefit, as they would be able to resolve any information errors in the edit summary. Even administrators could benefit from the proposal, correcting any injustices regarding fallacious accusations in "edit summary" after a more careful analysis of the community on conflicts. I believe that everyone would have the opportunity to redeem themselves for any errors written in the edit summary.
  • More comments: With the approval of this proposal, it should be implemented in all Wiki projects. I believe that each local project could determine internal rules to avoid possible abuse of the edit summary, so this would be the role of each local community. The MediaWiki developers would initially allow the ability to edit summary without any restrictions.
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  • Proposer: WikiFer msg 13:59, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • Old task for this was T12105. It would be pretty complex, you need an audit trail, a place to put that audit trail (which can't be the page history), a way to see changes, a way to revert, RC / watchlist integration, probably AbuseFilter integration... --Tgr (talk) 23:27, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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