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Recently (I'm not sure how long ago) it seems there were some changes. The headings are now defaulted to the right, and their content to left (but lower), which makes it awkward looking, and not as easy to follow. Also, what happened to the edit summary chart? Not that it was all that accurate, but please tell me it's coming back soon, after there has been an update to improve accuracy (and by then the headings will be fixed). Thanks

Sorry for the long response...

The headings are now defaulted to the right, and their content to left (but lower)I'm not sure what you mean. The headings always encompassed the width of the content, and the label is centered. What changed here is new headings were added for "Basic information" and "Edits (live)". We did this because we removed some statistics from the Edit Counter, so things were moved around to make use of the available space on the page. If you have any ideas on how to reorganize it and make it look nice, please share :)

For edit summaries: The WMF database that stores summaries was recently redone. Now all summaries (edits, log entries, etc.) live in a different database table. It's too slow to query these alongside all the other expensive queries that the Edit Counter runs, so instead we're showing links (see bottom of the "Edits (live)" section) to the dedicated tools to get this data: Edit Summaries and Automated Edits (which uses the summaries table).

But, you are right -- the summary stats we used to show in the Edit Counter weren't precise. They just checked where the summary was blank or non-blank, and didn't account for automated edit summaries like /* Section */. This was for performance. Enter the Edit Summaries tool, which will account for automated edit summaries, giving you what should be 100% accurate results :)

Hope this helps

Thanks for the reply. Would it help if I sent you a screen cap showing the layout of the page (that I'm seeing) and the placement of the headings? Thank again