If an edit changes a single section only, then the bot should be capable of detecting that section's title and amend the edit summary in the form "/* Section */ comment".
At least at first, it should be an opt-in feature.
Version: core
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | None | T72936 Important tasks to be solved (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T67987 Functionality existing in AutoWikiBrowser but missing from core (tracking) | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T14411 Automatic edit summary generation based on analyzing the change made | ||
| Open | Feature | None | T67989 automatically add changed section to edit summary when saving a page |
Change 118795 had a related patch set uploaded by Ricordisamoa:
add option to detect edited section automagically
You mean an option for the MediaWiki edit API, don't you?
That would be nice to have. If someone thinks it is doable, I'll abandon my patch.
Yes, but for now I've an user-script which does this: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Perhelion/sectionSummary