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  • 22:55, 2 December 2006 contribs)| m (self revert, image has been fixed)
  • 22:52, 2 December 2006 contribs)| m (adjust spacing so that image on English Wikipedia will work)
  • 23:49, 25 November 2006 contribs)| (→Automatic summaries - autosumm-shortnew is deprecated)
  • 15:10, 23 November 2006 contribs)| (→Automatic summaries - bugzilla:8013)
  • 07:42, 23 November 2006 contribs)| (→Automatic summaries - add newpage)
  • 13:26, 18 November 2006 contribs)| m (→Automatic summaries - class="wikitable")
  • 12:04, 17 November 2006 contribs)| (→Writing edit summaries - split up section; preview)
  • 10:09, 17 November 2006 contribs)| (→Automatic summaries - use clever trickses to display current value)
  • 08:12, 16 November 2006 contribs)| (Automatic summaries)
  • 03:40, 27 October 2006 User:68.101.149.220 (→Writing edit summaries - Changed "being sneaky" to "may question your motives for the edit".)
  • 20:09, 11 August 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 211.76.97.230 to last version by M7)
  • 20:07, 11 August 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 24.239.182.135 to last version by Patrick)
  • 23:42, 17 July 2006 contribs)| (When creating a redirect, an edit summary is automatically provided, with the text according to MediaWiki:Autoredircomment, but only if no edit summary is supplied (as opposed to the automatic edi)
  • 03:52, 2 July 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 125.235.50.113 to last version by RockOfVictory)
  • 18:22, 23 June 2006 contribs)| m (→Writing edit summaries - Abbr wikilinked)
  • 13:58, 5 June 2006 contribs)| (rv, people don't use edit summaries enough already)
  • 08:05, 28 May 2006 contribs)| (See motivation on talk page (Disturbing guideline))
  • 17:53, 27 May 2006 contribs)| (→Places where the edit summary appears - update/correction)
  • 17:46, 27 May 2006 contribs)| (→Writing edit summaries - clarify)
  • 04:18, 26 May 2006 contribs)| m (→Multiple sections in edit summary - spelling)
  • 04:03, 26 May 2006 contribs)| (cleaned up section editing and post a comment sections)
  • 10:43, 8 May 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 210.8.228.181 to last version by Locke Cole)
  • 15:42, 21 April 2006 contribs)| (→Section title as automatic edit summary - adding section - →Multiple sections in edit summary - new section)
  • 21:18, 4 April 2006 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 72.10.123.169 to last version by Korg)
  • 00:20, 24 March 2006 User:88.111.58.168 (→Writing edit summaries - Making the '195 characters' illustration clearer)
  • 06:12, 13 March 2006 contribs)| (reorganised, cleanup)
  • 04:57, 13 March 2006 contribs)| (rm template link)
  • 04:34, 13 March 2006 contribs)| (added template link, other small changes)
  • 08:56, 8 March 2006 contribs)| (The Capacity section is immensly helpful. It was to me when I first read this page.)
  • 00:45, 6 March 2006 contribs)| (focus the introduction on the importance of edit summaries, rather than technicalities.)
  • 16:27, 3 March 2006 contribs)| m (rm ugly box, as it obstructs reading. Let the reader read what he came after, that unimportant observation does not deserver such proeminence on top.)
  • 08:17, 20 February 2006 contribs)| (some cleanup)
  • 23:39, 1 February 2006 contribs)| m (→Edit summary - update wikilink dummy edit)
  • 13:45, 10 January 2006 contribs)| m (→Edit summary - Em-dash, awkward)
  • 13:37, 10 January 2006 contribs)| m (Ital; comma splice)
  • 13:24, 10 January 2006 contribs)| (Wordiness; clarity)
  • 05:41, 16 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
  • 05:28, 16 November 2005 contribs)| (Replacement of {{new}} with {{H:new}})
  • 04:17, 16 November 2005 contribs)| (Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)
  • 00:54, 25 September 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 218.11.177.13 to last version by Mindspillage)
  • 05:49, 11 September 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 220.161.154.90 to last version by ABCD)
  • 00:39, 12 August 2005 contribs)| (go around redirect)
  • 01:13, 29 July 2005 contribs)| (→Section title as automatic edit summary - the section title within the marks - →and - is preloaded in the edit summary box. However, such code works also if one enters it oneself.)
  • 02:16, 18 July 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 81.214.161.234 to last version by Pianoman87)
  • 12:04, 14 July 2005 contribs)| m (→Upload summary - sp)
  • 08:06, 5 May 2005 contribs)| ({{new|an edit summary of a page move is also possible, to explain it.}})
  • 19:37, 12 April 2005 contribs)| m (→Rendering of wikitext; URLs)
  • 19:36, 12 April 2005 contribs)| (→Rendering of wikitext; URLs - interwiki is a redirect. -> Help:Interwiki linking)
  • 12:16, 4 April 2005 contribs)| (Reverted to last version by Patrick)
  • 20:18, 3 April 2005 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 61.149.190.50 to last version by 159.226.5.82)
  • 15:45, 19 February 2005 contribs)| (→Upload summary -*as text in the entry of the image history)
  • 04:25, 12 February 2005 contribs)| m (→Upload summary)
  • 04:21, 12 February 2005 contribs)| (Note that there is no preview function to check the code for the links, template calls and category tags, but of course, one can edit the image page after uploading, to correct errors and also to exte)
  • 03:48, 12 February 2005 contribs)| (→Upload summary -The capacity of the upload summary is one line of 250 characters; in the upload log the last part may fall off, because this can contain 255 characters, including "uploaded "''file)
  • 03:16, 12 February 2005 contribs)| (→Upload summary - ***specify one or more categories the image is in / misc)
  • 03:11, 12 February 2005 contribs)| (→Upload summary)
  • 06:12, 27 December 2004 contribs)| (→Section title as automatic edit summary - bug seems fixed)
  • 17:52, 23 December 2004 User:65.50.55.173 (→Edit summary - : minor copyediting fixes--added "in the" to "always fill summary field" in 3rd-last para for clarity; repunctuated 3rd sentence of that para to correct run-on/comma fault; & misc.)
  • 21:39, 11 December 2004 contribs)| m (→Section title as automatic edit summary)
  • 21:36, 11 December 2004 contribs)| (Only when applying the "previous edit" link from the diff page showing the difference from the first to some other version, an interwiki link in the edit summary of the first edit is (as wikitext, no)
  • 21:13, 11 December 2004 contribs)| (→Section title as automatic edit summary - There is a bug: an interwiki link in the edit summary, including the link label, is lost.)
  • 21:09, 11 December 2004 contribs)| (→Section title as automatic edit summary - From MediaWiki version 1.4 (Dec 2004), the section is preceded by a right arrow that links to the section.)
  • 13:19, 24 November 2004 User:210.49.42.126 (revert edits by 217.8.231.79 to last version by Patrick)
  • 22:15, 13 November 2004 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 210.82.76.17 to last version by Patrick)
  • 12:50, 12 October 2004 contribs)| m (Reverted edits by 210.82.76.17 to last version by IMSoP)
  • 00:16, 22 September 12, 2004 contribs)| (correct linking to point to Help:Editing rather than the old location)
  • 10:48, 21 August 2004 contribs)| m (→Section title as automatic edit summary)
  • 11:52, 23 July 2004 contribs)| (→Edit summary -Help:Editing#Dummy_edit)
  • 10:48, 21 July 2004 contribs)| (→Rendering of wikitext in edit summaries)
  • 11:04, 17 July 2004 contribs)| m (→Edit summary)
  • 09:20, 16 July 2004 contribs)| (Most projects highly recommend to use it to its full capacity, to summarize the changes made.)
  • 09:07, 16 July 2004 contribs)| (An insertion action of e.g. 10 characters in a line of 195 characters results in the first 5 characters being inserted.)
  • 09:02, 16 July 2004 contribs)| (The capacity is one line of 200 characters, with horizontal scrolling. A copy action of more, results in the rest falling off. Insertions do not work if the line is full, one has to delete text at the)
  • 08:57, 16 July 2004 contribs)| (One possible workaround for a new list is putting the list on one line, copying it to the edit summary box, and then, in the main edit box, putting the newlines and bullets.)
  • 08:45, 16 July 2004 contribs)| (→Rendering of wikitext in edit summaries - copying wikitext in the edit summary box may be preferable to copying text from the preview, except when one wants to save space.)
  • 08:34, 16 July 2004 contribs)| (→Edit summary -Thus e.g. a bulleted "see also" list is cumbersome to put in the edit summary box.)
  • 08:26, 16 July 2004 contribs)| (Unfortunately one can copy only one "line" (in the sense of the text until a newline) into the edit summary box. However, the contents of a second line can be pasted at the end of the line.)
  • 22:35, 29 June 2004 contribs)| (→Upload summary -Text in edit summaries is not interpreted, except for internal links, including piped links, and links to pages in other Wikimedia projects, even when enclosed within <nowiki> and)
  • 17:57, 12 June 2004 contribs)| m (→Places where the edit summary appears)
  • 13:31, 12 June 2004 contribs)| (→Section title as automatic edit summary - Since MediaWiki version 1.3 (May 2004), the automatic part of the summary is no longer surrounded by "="-signs, but it appears in grey text, with the manu)
  • 01:57, 30 May 2004 contribs)| (The edit summary is also on the Diff page.)
  • 09:36, 18 April 2004 contribs)| (MediaWiki version)
  • 09:20, 18 April 2004 contribs)| (temporarily put version from en:, for use with diff, hold on)
  • 00:29, 18 April 2004 contribs)| (move from en, update links, add new features)
  • 00:19, 26 September 2003 contribs)| (See en:Wikipedia:Edit summary.)

[edit] From Meta:Help talk:Edit summary

[edit] protect?

If this page shouldn't be edited, why isn't it protected??martianlostinspace 17:10, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Protection should always be used with caution. It is not exactly considered a high risk page nor has it experienced huge amounts of vandalism or edit warring. At the moment I doubt that it really needs any protection.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 00:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Poet gal is right, protecting pages only happens in extreme cases of vandalism. Any changes every once and a while can just be reverted. Arjun 20:29, 13 January 2007 (UdsfasdTC)

PHOTO CREDIT FOR FATHER JAMES COYLE's PHOTO... Please give credit for the Father James Coyle photo to "Birmingham, Alabama Public Library Archives". I originally bought a copy of the photo for the www.FatherCoyle.org website from the BPL Archives. I've researched Father Coyle's life, priestly service in Alabama, his murder and the trial of the man who assassinated him for many years. I recently discovered a notarized, sworn statement from an eye-witness to the murder from a man, Douglas White, who was not permitted to testify at the trial.His statement contradicts the testimony of the shooter. The accused was found not guilty on the jurors' first vote. - by John Wright, Jr. Birmingham, Alabama, 205-879-2209, e-mail: wright5529@bellsouth.com (written for Wikipedia 4-26-088) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.155.131.127 (talk) 22:12, 26 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] suggestion

Why not make this near compulsory? Simply south 15:08, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

It's a complicated issue, because there are some occasions when leaving it blank may be temporarily permissible, such as if the change was "urgent" due to vandalism or copyright violation (although a simple rv still doesn't hurt, and in the case of the latter, admins should definitely be alerted). Also, we don't want to discourage those first few tentative steps every newbie editor makes by over-complicating things with instructions that relate primarily to the slightly more esoteric world of maintenance and convenience, rather than content. Perhaps, though, it would make sense to have it be near-compulsory for all editors with a certain degree of experience, or at the very least, to have a committee (if there isn't one already) give editors who repeatedly leave blank/obscure summaries a gentle nudge towards this page. \sim Lenoxus " * " 22:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oddity

I edited a page (Big Brain Academy) a minute ago and didn't give an edit summary. However, i checked back and it said "(4,984 bytes)" is there a reason? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 06018 (talk) 12:34, 21 April 2007 (UTC).

Never mind Andrew Marsden 07:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia's software generally gives the page size, in bytes, with every edit. Don't panic about not giving an edit summary - they're useful but if you forget, it's no problem. --h2g2bob (talk) 08:14, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Annoying

I accidentally hit this little link, which is located mere millimeters away from the Edit This Page button, and I lost my entire page when I was just about to enter an edit summary. Why must it be #1: placed there, and #2: linked? I'm sure this has happened to other users, and I would make a suggestion of moving the link somewhere else. Bmrbarre 00:12, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Usually hitting the "back" browser button should allow you to recover the text, unless your browser does not do caching. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
No, I lose it all. It goes back to the edit page, but nothing that I had typed is still there. Ben 18:59, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
So I guess your browser does not do caching. Firefox does it by default, don't know about other browsers. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:01, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm just saying that they're annoying for some people, notably me, and that the placement is horrendous and has cost me several hours of time. Benjamin 02:57, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On talk pages too?

Should comments on talk pages have edit summaries? --Apoc2400 08:25, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

It could be nice, but it is not so important as in article pages, and they don't have to be so detailed. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:06, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit an edit summary?

Is there a way to edit one's own edit summary? For example, sometimes I realize after I make an edit that I could have done the summary better, but I've never found any mention of how to change one. -Eric (talk) 20:49, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

You can't edit an edit summary after you hit save, in the same way as you can't edit the history of an article. All you can do is make another edit (perhaps a dummy one, like inserting an extra space at the end of a sentence) where you can make more precise the edit summary for the previous edit. They two edit summaries will both show up in the history next to each other. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:15, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, Oleg. I wonder if it would be difficult to add the option for an editor to alter his/her summary. I don't know where to bring up questions regarding the underlying functionality of Wikipedia. -Eric (talk) 03:39, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Try asking at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). But I doubt this would ever be implemented, because, on principle, records already in the history should not be modified. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:15, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Okay--thanks again, Oleg. I entered an enhancement request on Bugzilla (no. 10723) to see what the developers think. -Eric (talk) 16:49, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links in the edit summary?

Hi, I have been trying to include links in the edit summary, but I can't make it work. I read the article Edit summary, but I don't seem to find what is going on. See a few failed attempts on 27-aug-2007. Can anyone help me here? TIA, DVdm 09:19, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Problem solved. Thanks, Tim. DVdm 09:10, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page doesn't look right at all

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.11 and the main page has a large gap between the first line and the summary box. Does anybody else see this? Is there a fix? Stillwaterising (talk) 11:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC) Page appearance depends on display page width. Narrow screens push the image to below the right TOC. Can't edit? hmm...


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