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Adville (talkcontribs)

I think it is a little bit anoying that it by default is written "svar" ("answer" in English) in the edit comment when you reply on a discussion with this tool. Is it posible to get it removed? Reason: I always writes edit comments, and when you edit articles you have to explain what you do. When answering in a discussion it is the same: Good to explain. If you then needs to remove the "svar", or so every time it is annoying. Better delete that and have a popup if you forget to write an edit comment, I think. Else it is a nice discussion tool. (If you answer, please ping me in so I will see it.). Best regards,

Adville (talkcontribs)

...or let the word "svar" be shadowed. Then you may choose to save without writing anythin, or you may start writing direct and it will be deleted and replaced direct. (it is differnet tecniques writing on cell phone or computer).

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I've checked a couple of wikis, and it's not common for people to provide meaningful edit summaries on talk pages. At the Swedish Wikipedia, here's what I see in Special:RecentChanges for discussion pages today:

  • (K3)
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • (Arkiverar min användardiskussionssidaför januari 2023.)
  • (Arkiverar min användardiskussionssida för januari 2023.)
  • no edit summary
  • (Arkiverar 2022)
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • no edit summary
  • (+ några referenser)
  • (k3)
  • no edit summary

I have excluded all edits from the Reply tool and its New Topic tool. If the editor includes the automatic section heading, but nothing else, I recorded that as no edit summary. 70% of my sample has no edit summary. If that is typical for the Swedish Wikipedia, then I'm not sure that removing svar would be an improvement. The choice really seems to be between svar and nothing.


(This page is in Flow, which auto-pings people who have commented in a thread.)

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