MediaWiki talk:Undo-summary

shorter?
We have a shortened summary edit box, and anyway, I've always thought the message too long. Would there be any objections to shortening it to ? Contribs would be one more click away (as would be talk), but you can actually see that there's space to add stuff after the. Any objections? -- ◄mendel► 01:19, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I approve. This gives more room for a reasonable edit summary when reverting changes, especially from an IP. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 01:52, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Examples: -- ◄mendel► 02:01, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Linking to the user page doesn't make sense. Having a link to the user's contribs makes sense because, if some user is getting reverted, you might want to check their contributions and see if they've made any other edits that need reverting (vandal/etc).  A link to the user's talkpage is also useful, in case you need to warn/inform them about their edits.  But a link to the userpage?  Why?  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 04:44, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Because of the edit box change, I see a strong incentive to have a very short message even if you need 2 clicks to get to contribs via the user page, and 2 clicks to get to talk via the user page. It's a matter of balancing interests: is it more important to get to these destinations with just 1 click (and please remember that in most cases, the original edit is in close proximity on RC and has these links you want), or is it more important to have a revert message that leaves room to start into the explanation on Monaco without needing to scroll? For me, the short message wins out, but since it's a matter of opinion, your view may differ. -- ◄mendel► 23:17, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * How do you get to someone's contributions without a direct link? The only way I know is to hit "my contributions" and paste their username in there. A direct link to it is convenient to have in case of reverts, unless there's another way to get there just clicking from their userpage that I don't know about. It doesn't take long to go to someone's userpage and hit "discussion" to get to their talk, so that's not an issue and the talk link is not necessary, as the user link is a bit shorter (by 10 characters). RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 04:51, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * In fact, iirc, if you open someone's contributions, you can immediately link to their userpage and talk from there, so just the contributions links alone would be enough. RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.png]] 04:53, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The toolbox has a link to one's contributions (It's also a handy way of finding out if a User: page actually is registered; the Contribs link only pops up when the account is registered). Also, some time soon the summary bar is going to be extended, right? --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG|Ohaider!]] -- (contribs) &emsp;(talk)  12:22, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It will be extended to...500px I think? But still shorter than it used to be on Monaco. So it still makes sense to shorten the summary some way or other. Anyway, I personally think Userpage seems like the most logical thing to remove, for reasons the Doctor explained above. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 12:27, 24 January 2009 (UTC)