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Bug 50985 - Allow 'naming' of a single revision to add a subtitle
Allow 'naming' of a single revision to add a subtitle
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
History/Diffs (Other open bugs)
1.22.0
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-07-08 22:56 UTC by SJ
Modified: 2013-07-09 09:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description SJ 2013-07-08 22:56:01 UTC
Individual historical revisions often have significance:  as the outcome of a compromise, the version of an article that became a Featured Article, one of two options in a significant format switch.   

It is often useful to link back to those historical revisions.  It would be even more useful to have a short description of what the revision is.   When you aren't looking at a diff, the edit summary isn't evident.  And often the edit summary isn't directly about that revision but part of a running commentary throughout the history flow.  

An additional field in the revisions table for a subtitle(?), that would show up under the title - perhaps in a different color - would address this.   But any way to make a title or brief description visible at the top of the screen would be excellent, and would make the strengths of permanent revisions even more useful.
Comment 1 Bartosz Dziewoński 2013-07-08 22:58:33 UTC
This sounds like a use-case for bug 18670 :)

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