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- Automatic edit summaries are created by the MediaWiki software for certain actions. These summaries appear in recent changes, page histories, and contributions...
- An edit summary is a brief explanation of an edit to a Wikipedia page. Summaries help other editors by (a) providing a reason for the edit, (b) saving...
- controversial, one option is to include the word "minor" in the edit summary without ticking the "minor edit" box.) Users who are not logged in to Wikipedia are not...
- in progress. When you have finished editing, you should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit box (pictured below). You may use shorthand...
- #2. The software can sometimes automatically reconcile the differences; if it is unable to do so, Alice will see an "edit conflict" page, giving Alice a...
- Help:Reverting (redirect from Edit reverting)allow adding an explanation to the automatic edit summary without external scripts. Rollback without an edit summary may only be used in certain circumstances;...
- type Test edit – first time using the Sandbox. (See the box below for information about edit summaries.) Once you've added an edit summary, it's time...
- treat automatic edit summaries as if no edit summary was there, since they indicate that none was entered by the editor. Before you revert an edit, you...
- Help:Section (redirect from Section edit)without an edit link. Advantages of separate pages: what links here feature separate edit histories some template limits apply per page automatic redirect...
- to the edit summary box and add "reverting vandalism" or something similar to the automatic summary. Click Show preview to make sure your edit removes...
- image note edits. If anyone wants to do so: the filters at the Commons worked simply by using a regexp match on the (automatic) edit summaries, as defined...
- blank edit summary" in the "editing" tab of your My Preferences page (see the section about edit summaries), you may see a message that the edit summary is...
- Help:Import (section Editing the import file)The edit summary does not automatically show that the page has been imported, but in the case of upload import that can be added to the edit summaries in...
- Help:Pipe trick (section Edit summaries)not work in edit summaries. /* Edit summaries and the pipe trick */ as tested in [[WP:SAND|]] renders in the edit history as: →Edit summaries and the pipe...
- with a particular template simply by changing the template itself. This automatic updating is the true power of templates. (But to prevent tampering, high-use...
- Help:Redirect (section Creating and editing redirects)"Apply changes" button Save the page. You may enter an edit summary, or an automatic summary will be generated. For redirecting xyz to article abc, enter...
- revert all the edits made by that user. Then the edit summaries are shown in a parenthesis. If the user has used links in their edit summary, these act as...
- Help:Page history (redirect from Edit history)A standard edit summary can be added by the user. This appears in black text. Not shown in this example: some edits may be automatically tagged by the...
- Help:User contributions (section Total edit count)edit. Edit summaries like this one begin with an arrow link and grey text, signifying that the user has only selected one section of the page to edit (named...
- have seen the content; this is true whether the removal was manual or automatic. The talk page guidelines suggest archiving when the talk page exceeds...
- edit summaries. When starting a new thread on a Talk page, optionally the "Post a comment" feature can be used. Then the edit summary is automatically the
- understand that the edit summary "typo" means you are correcting a minor spelling or punctuation correction. Accurate edit summaries are considered good
- avoid accidentally leaving edit summaries blank, you can select "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" on the Editing tab of your user preferences