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Allow changeset edits for templates and modules (Community Wishlist/W274)

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Description

When working with version control on software development, it's good practice to have each individual revision reflect a single (type of) change. However, in MediaWiki each individual revision is immediately committed to the live version of a page (discounting FlaggedRevs and the like), meaning this type of separation can be potentially very expensive if it's happening on a widely-transcluded template/widely-invoked module, since each individual edit creates jobs for every page using that template/module. Therefore, it should be possible to make multiple changes to a template/module as separate revisions, and then submit them all as a single edit/commit/whatever to the live template/module.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish
System change
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Affected users

template editors and Lua module programmers

Other details
  • Created: 20:16, 21 August 2024
  • Last updated: 16:40, 20 November 2025
  • Author: Dinoguy1000 (talk)
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