Help:Automatic edit summaries
What to do
If vandalism (or a well-meaning test requiring reversion) is suspected, please examine the edit to determine its nature and respond accordingly. Remember to assume good faith in the absence of evidence to the contrary. Keep in mind that the edit summary was not typed by the user, so it should not be interpreted as such evidence.
When an anonymous editor blanks all or part of a biography of a living person, it is important to remember that this may be an attempt by the subject of the article to remove problematic material. If this appears to be the case then such an edit should not be treated as vandalism. Instead, the editor should be welcomed and invited to explain his/her concerns with the article.
Examples of automatic edit summaries
You can customize or disable auto edit summaries on your wiki by creating/editing messages including, but not limited to, the following:
| Action | Page | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Removing all content on a page, resulting in an empty page with no content (criteria: new page size of 0 bytes) | MediaWiki:Autosumm-blank | ←Blanked the page |
| Removing nearly all content on a page, and possibly replacing it with new content (criteria: at least 90% of original content removed, and a new page size not exceeding 500 bytes) | MediaWiki:Autosumm-replace | ←Replaced content with 'The cat sat on the mat' |
| Creating a new page with content (criteria: page size greater than 0 bytes) | MediaWiki:Autosumm-new | ←Created page with 'The cat sat on the mat' |
| Creating an empty page with no content (criteria: page size of 0 bytes) | MediaWiki:Autosumm-newblank | ←Created blank page |
| Creating a redirect to another page | MediaWiki:Autoredircomment | ←Redirected page to Help:Contents |
| Undoing a past revision of the page (by clicking "undo" in the page history) | MediaWiki:Undo-summary | Undid revision 11572 by Example (talk) |
| Reverting one or more edits to a page by a user (using the rollback feature) | MediaWiki:Revertpage | Reverted edits by Example (talk) to last version by Username |
See also
- Feature description at Meta-Wiki
- Undo and rollback, reverting tools that pre-fill the edit summary