Topic on Talk:Structured Discussions

So... the first thought is that edit summaries shouldn't be needed at all with talk pages in general and with Flow in particular.

But on a second thought, they may be useful. A Hebrew Wikipedia user said: "If from the edit summary I see that it's a welcome or a warning template, then I don't bother checking, but if it's a reply to a post that interest me, then I do. And sometimes talk pages are vandalized."

So I'm passing this on - although maybe the right thing is not to add edit summaries, but to somehow understand the different workflows and indicate them in recent changes and watchlists accordingly.

There's Flow/Prior_discussion-thread-roundup#Edit_summaries which collects some previous discussions. I'll have to re-read it, on Monday...

What I'd like to do is reduce the need the write edit comments altogether. Things like adding and removing templates and categories are extremely common tasks and could easily be recognized by the software. If no edit comment is specified by the user, the software tries to write one for you, but you could always override it by writing your own summary. I've been meaning to write such a gadget at svwiki but I'm still too new to javascript.

Templates are used for so much (like welcoming and warning, as you mention) and I think we should really use that to our advantage.

Also, these Flow edit windows really need to be resizable. Why is "resize: none;" there?

Because it's supposed to resize automatically as you type.