Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Archive/Force contributors to write an edit summary
Force contributors to write an edit summary
Proposes a social/community policy change rather than a technical feature
Original title: Obliger les contributeurs à écrire un résumé de leur contribution
- Problem:
- English (translation): I wish to write an edit summary was mandatory before submitting it. This would let have a better global view on article edits, and above all it would force contributors to justify their edit pedagogically, avoiding savage reverts without explanation.
- French (original): Je souhaite qu’il soit obligatoire d’écrire un résumé d’une contribution avant de la valider. Cela permettrait d’avoir une meilleure vision globale des contributions d’un article, et surtout cela obligerait les contributeurs à justifier leur contribution de manière pédagogique, en évitant les suppressions sauvages faites sans explication.
- Who would benefit:
- Proposed solution:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Tubamirum (talk) 10:48, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
- This is not something CommTech can help with. You need to talk with your local wiki about whether contributions should have an edit summary forced on users (hint: they probably won't take your suggestion). --Izno (talk) 01:35, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- Indeed, this is more of a social change than a technical one. If your wiki does decide it wants to enforce edit summary usage, you could use fr:Special:AbuseFilter to do it, or author a simple gadget. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 19:49, 8 November 2018 (UTC)