[WikiEN-l] Autoblocking, reverts, and verifiability

Thu Oct 6 15:57:29 UTC 2005

Michael Turley wrote:

>I wanted to make sure my edits were "proper" before committing them,
>after all, they are in the edit history FOREVER ;-), so I did more
>than an afternoon's worth of reading before my first logged-in post.
>My initial thoughts were "What would be worse for establishing your
>reputation than having a crappy first edit?"  Yet I still neglected to
>use an edit summary!  Doh!

It took me a few days to realise it used a version control system and
that the edit summary was equivalent to the CVS commit message ;-)

- d.