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I got conclusion that edit summaries cause more harm than good in many communities, due to the phenomena I recognize in many Wikipedias of inciting or trolling comments instead constructive summaries (especially in the form of question) and therefore would like to cancel them from backend in my personal MediaWiki site (CSS or JavaScript are not an option for me in this case).

Is there a ready-to-use way to totally cancel these (or to at least limit some characters inside them or add warning not to ask questions if a questions as summary but to prefer talk page) directly from LocalSettings.php?

Thanks anyway for your time,

The easiest way is to hide the edit summary box with CSS (but you said that's not an option for you)

Otherwise, you can probably use extension:AbuseFilter to give warnings or disallow edits that have edit summaries containing words you don't like.

I wonder if you could use a MediaWiki hook to change the edit summary string to "".