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Bugs

Section name in edit summaries

When editing a section of an article, providing an edit summary now prevents the edit history from showing which section was edited. The section name used to be prepended to the editor-supplied edit summary, as in this edit summary from 2017. If the editor leaves the edit summary blank, the section name is still shown, as in this summary from a few minutes ago.

In Wikipedia, when editing a section, the section name is pre-populated in the edit summary field between C-style comment marks, such as /* Behind the scenes */, and an editor can append their summary to this, or remove it to suppress the section name in the edit summary. I don't recall whether this is how the Wookieepedia of 2017 and earlier also handled it. Asithol (talk) 00:41, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

• Explicitly adding the section name between /* and */ does also work to include it in the edit summary, as demonstrated by the edit I'm now making. But it should not be incumbent on the editor to remember to do this every time they edit a section; the field should be populated thus by default. Asithol (talk) 00:44, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello! I don't quite understand, sorry. From testing, editing a section adds /* and */ marks to the section header in the edit summary, and you can add a summary after that. Are you saying that's not how it should happen? --Spongebob456 ^talk 10:24, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

That is exactly how it should happen, and how it's currently not happening, at least using the default skin in Firefox 102.12.0esr. For this edit I'm currently making, the edit-summary field is blank, even though I'm editing a specific section. The edit history will likely show the section name anyway, so it's pulling that information from somewhere even in the absence of the pre-populated summary field you're seeing. Asithol (talk) 19:52, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Heya, sorry for the late reply, been a bit poorly this week. Which editor are you using please? 2010, default source editor? --Spongebob456 ^talk 11:30, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

This is using the default source editor. I don't know what you mean by "2010." Asithol (talk) 01:58, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

This bug is still happening: I edited only the Aftermath section of Night of Sorrow. The edit-summary field was not pre-populated with the section name inside /* and */, and the resulting edit summary shows only the text I entered, not the section edited. (This edit also is not showing the section name in the edit-summary field, but since I'm not adding my own edit summary, I predict that the bug thread's edit history will show the section name.) Asithol (talk) 23:54, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

As predicted. Asithol (talk) 23:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

As this is likely a Fandom rather than Wookieepedia bug, and as the lack of response from Fandom in over a year indicates no one from Fandom is following this thread anymore, where is a better place to report this? Asithol (talk) 23:49, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Hey, I just want to start by saying how sorry I am this wasn't addressed. There's no excuse - your reply likely got caught in my emails somewhere. If ever I don't reply again after 48 hours, please ping me on my talk page as I'm never ignoring. Sorry again!

I have just tried to reproduce this issue again, and in my sandbox's history, it shows the edit section in the history. The only issue I found is the section did not appear in the edit summary box, and rather just appeared in the history. You're saying though you can't get it to appear in the History at all right? I've tested in the 2010 and 2017 editors - these are listed in Special:Preferences under "Editing" -> "Preferred editor" -> Source editor (2010) or Visual editor - source mode (2017).

Just a note that my last day before the holiday break is Friday (tomorrow). I will make a better effort to keep an eye on this thread tomorrow and when I come back, but please do nudge me if you're awaiting a reply. Sorry again! --Spongebob456 ^talk 15:28, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

No worries, this isn't urgent. Correct, the section name does not appear in the edit summary box, and it does show up in the edit history—if you don't enter an edit summary. If you do enter one, the section name no longer appears in the history. It used to: see my first post above for an example. (This is just one example of thousands; this worked consistently through at least 2017. I don't remember when it stopped, but it was around the time of one of the major UI changes.) Asithol (talk) 17:17, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Oooh I now reproduce! We have a pre-existing ticket for this I have just found, and I've added this as an example. Being honest, I'm still not sure it would be a quick fix due to other priorities. But the ticket is open, it's on our records, and as the backlog is decreased we should get to it. Thanks for the report again and sorry it took so long for me to address it! --Spongebob456 ^talk 13:59, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Is the ticket viewable by mere mortals? Asithol (talk) 19:11, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Hey! In typical me fashion, this is a late reply again :( unfortunately, the ticket isn't publicly viewable but is still on our records. I don't think it'll be a quick fix as I say, but I have just nudged it and hopefully some time will open up soon when engineers can work on it. --Spongebob456 ^talk 14:16, 5 February 2025 (UTC)