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In the extreme case of an edit summary containing certain kinds of harmful content, the summary can be deleted on request. They may be removed from public view by administrators using Revision Deletion; such edit summaries remain visible to administrators. In even more limited circumstances the entire edit may be oversighted, leaving it and its edit summary visible only to the handful of users with the Oversight permission. | In the extreme case of an edit summary containing certain kinds of harmful content, the summary can be deleted on request. They may be removed from public view by administrators using Revision Deletion; such edit summaries remain visible to administrators. In even more limited circumstances the entire edit may be oversighted, leaving it and its edit summary visible only to the handful of users with the Oversight permission. | ||
==Edit summary properties and features== | |||
* ''[[#The 250 character limit|Limited to 250 characters]]''. The edit summary box can hold one line of 250 characters. If you attempt to type or paste more, only the first 250 characters will be displayed – the rest will be discarded. For example, attempting to add 10 new characters (at the end or in between) to a summary already containing 245 characters will result in the first 5 new characters being inserted and the second 5 being disregarded. | |||
* ''Show preview''. The "Show preview" button also provides a preview of the edit summary to facilitate checking links. | |||
* ''Can't be changed after saving''. After you save the page, you cannot change the edit summary (see bugs [[bugzilla:10105|10105]] and [[bugzilla:13937|13937]]). | |||
* ''Doesn't appear in searches''. The built-in [[Help:Searching|search function]] cannot search edit summaries, and they are not indexed by external search engines. | |||
* ''Wikilinks always rendered; other wikitext coding ignored''. Edit summaries render internal links, including [[Help:Piped link|piped links]], and [[Help:Interwiki linking|interwiki]] links, even when enclosed within <nowiki><nowiki> and </nowiki></nowiki>. Therefore, copying wikitext in the edit summary box may be preferable to copying text from the preview, except when one wants to save space. Other wikitext coding is not interpreted. <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code> has no effect, so do not [[Wikipedia:Signatures|sign]] edit summaries. | |||
===Places where the edit summary appears=== | |||
The edit summary appears in black italics in the following places: | |||
* [[Help:Page history|Page history]] – list of changes to the page you edited | |||
* [[Help:User contributions|User contributions]] – list of all your edits | |||
* [[Help:Watching pages|Watchlist]]<ref group="note">Use the enhanced watchlist to see all recent changes in the watched pages, not just the last change in each page.</ref> – list of recent changes to watched pages ([[Help: Logging in|logged-in]] users only) | |||
* [[Help:Diff|Diff page]] – shows the difference between two edits | |||
* [[Help:Recent changes|Recent changes]] – list of all recent edits | |||
* Related changes – list of recent changes to pages linked to the page you edited | |||
* [[Special:NewPages|List of new pages]] – shows the edit summary of the creation. | |||
===Section editing=== | |||
When adding a new section to a discussion page with the "new section" button, the section title is used as the edit summary. When editing an existing section, the section title is inserted at the beginning of the edit summary, enclosed with /* and */ marks, for example /* External links */. Details of the edit should be added 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 250 characters. | |||
When viewing such an edit summary, the section name will appear in grey, with a small arrow next to it: <span class="autocomment">[[#Foo|''→'']]''External links''</span>. Click the arrow to view the section (if the section no longer exists, the link will simply take you to the top of the page). | |||
If you create a new section before or after an existing section by clicking a section "''edit''" link, delete the text between /* and */ marks (or change it to the new section title) to avoid confusion.<ref>It used to be possible to manually include links to multiple sections using the /* */ syntax – this may be useful when editing several sections at once. | |||
The edit summary: | |||
: {{Inputbox|/* Foo */ test /* Bar */ test}} | |||
should be rendered as: | |||
: <span class="comment"><span class="autocomment">[[#Foo|→]]Foo</span> test <span class="autocomment">[[#Bar|→]]Bar</span> test</span>. | |||
{{reflist}} | |||
===Automatic summaries=== | |||
In certain circumstances, an automatic summary is generated when an edit is saved without one. This is slightly different from the summary added when editing a section, as that can be modified by the user before saving. | |||
With the exception of the automatic summary when creating a redirect, which usually says all that needs to be said, these are not a substitute for a proper edit summary – you should always leave a meaningful summary, even in the above cases. They are, however, useful in providing some context for edits made by inexperienced users who are not aware of the importance of edit summaries, and for spotting vandalism. | |||
When starting a new thread on a talk page by using the "New section" tab, the text you type into the "subject/headline" field becomes both the heading of your discussion topic, and the edit summary for that edit. | |||
====Tags==== | |||
Tags (i.e., edit tags) are brief messages that the software automatically places next to certain edits in histories, recent changes and other special pages. They are implemented by the edit filter to help assist vandalism patrollers and other page watchers. They cannot be added or removed manually. | |||
==Donations== | ==Donations== | ||
