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Automatic edit summary generation based on analyzing the change made
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Author: sean.van.der.smythe

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It is proposed that when a user submits an edit with a blank edit summary, a summary is automatically generated according to the change made. For example adding [[ and ]] around a word or phrase would be recognized as "wikify" and changing the case of letters could be recognized as a "capitalization change" etc. The type of change could then be followed by the change made (e.g. "Wikify: enzyme -> [[enzyme]]" or "Wikify: distributor -> [[dstributor (engine)|distributor]]").

The suggestion was discussed and consensus was reached here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Automatic_edit_summary

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:01 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-diffs.
• bzimport set Reference to bz12411.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Dec 25 2007, 9:17 AM
• demon added a comment.Oct 22 2009, 2:31 PM

Suggest WONTFIX. The few auto-summaries we do support are black and white cases (new section, rollback, etc). Trying to get the software to guess is a bad idea imho.

• demon added a comment.Oct 22 2009, 2:32 PM
  • Bug 12613 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Aklapper added a comment.Jul 7 2014, 12:06 PM

Request for machine-based unsupervised text extraction.
Probably error-prone, as already written.

Sean Smith:
Is the scope of this request clear by only requesting to recognize wikifying? Or is the scope broad and vague by requesting other, non-mentioned stuff?

• demon unsubscribed.Mar 9 2017, 9:39 PM
Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Low to Lowest.Aug 9 2019, 9:25 PM
Aklapper edited projects, added MediaWiki-Page-editing, artificial-intelligence; removed MediaWiki-Page-diffs.
Perhelion added subtasks: T22307: Generate automatic summary /* blah */ when I manually add a section heading when editing, T67989: automatically add changed section to edit summary when saving a page, T3307: Auto-Edit Summary: if few changes ("smaller" than a threshold) have been made, automatically create an Edit Summary from diff results.Aug 10 2019, 8:38 PM
DannyS712 added a subtask: T2931: automatic edit summary for categorizing pages.Aug 10 2019, 9:06 PM
Kizule moved this task from Backlog to Edit summary on the MediaWiki-Page-editing board.Aug 31 2019, 10:39 AM
Esanders mentioned this in T54859: VisualEditor: Populate the edit summary for simple changes.Nov 24 2020, 4:24 PM
Cirdan mentioned this in T279854: VisualEditor creates misleading edit summary when editing multiple sections.Apr 11 2021, 1:22 PM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:02 AM
Aklapper removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.
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