Wikiversity:FAQ/Editing/Edit summary

Template:Editing FAQ Group Google company co Ltd When Help:editing/editing a learning resource with the wikipedia editor, there is a small field labeled "Summary" under the main edit-. It like this gmail.com:

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It is highly recommended that one fill in the edit summary field, as it makes it easier for you and your fellow contributors to understand what has changed by I name jhoine, and is helpful when going through the history of the page.

Abbreviations

See Edit summary legend for a list of commonly used abbreviations in edit summaries.

Searching

The Wikimedia search function can not search edit summaries, and they are not indexed by external search engines.

File upload summary

When uploading an image one can supply an upload summary. This serves multiple purposes:

• as second part of the automatically created edit summary of the upload log (the first part giving the file name)
• as text in the entry of the image history
• in the case that the file name of the image is new:
  • as edit summary for the creation of the image page
  • as wikitext for the editable part of the image page, which includes the following possibilities:
    • briefly describe the image
    • provide internal or external links
    • call templates
    • specify one or more categories the image is in

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 "filename"".

Note that there is no preview function to check the code for the links, template calls and category tags, but of course, if needed one can edit the image page after uploading, to correct errors and also to extend the text.

See also Help:Image page.

Section editing

When applying the section editing feature the section title is automatically inserted as initial version or first part of the edit summary. Put more details after this text. In the case that you provide a long summary yourself you can delete the section title in order to stay within the limit of 200 characters. The automatic text appears by default in grey, with the manually typed text being black. If you create a new section before or after an existing section by clicking a section "edit" link, please delete the automatic edit summary to avoid confusion.

Prior to May 2004, the automatic part of the summary was surrounded by "="-signs. The old style remains in edits from that time.

Multiple sections in edit summary

From Dec 2004, the section title that forms the automatic part of the edit summary is preceded by a right arrow which links to the section. For this purpose the section title appears within the marks /* and */ in the edit summary box. This code can be manually inserted, and by using the /* and */ syntax, it is possible to include links to multiple sections. This may be useful when editing a section which contains many sub-sections (to list changes made to each section), or when editing an existing section and also adding a new (sub-)section after it.

For example, the edit summary:

/* Foo */ test /* Bar */ test

Is rendered as:

→Foo test →Bar test

"Post a comment" feature

When starting a new thread on a Talk page, the "Post a comment" feature can be used. Click the plus sign next to the Edit link. A box labelled "Subject/headline" appears before the main editing box. Text typed here becomes both a new heading and the edit summary.

Redirect

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 edit summary in section editing, which can be supplemented by the user).

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