Wikiversity:FAQ/Editing/Edit summary

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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.

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