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automatically add changed section to edit summary when saving a page
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Description

If an edit changes a single section only, then the bot should be capable of detecting that section's title and amend the edit summary in the form "/* Section */ comment".

At least at first, it should be an opt-in feature.


Version: core
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz65989

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:21 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz65989.

Change 118795 had a related patch set uploaded by Ricordisamoa:
add option to detect edited section automagically

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/118795

This should be general not only a special for Pywikibot?!?

This should be general not only a special for Pywikibot?!?

You mean an option for the MediaWiki edit API, don't you?
That would be nice to have. If someone thinks it is doable, I'll abandon my patch.

You mean an option for the MediaWiki edit API, don't you?
That would be nice to have. If someone thinks it is doable, I'll abandon my patch.

Yes, but for now I've an user-script which does this: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Perhelion/sectionSummary

Not going to work on this in the near future

Xqt changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".