Predictive edit summaries based on changes to article text
Problem: Some edit summaries take longer to write than the edits themselves. Editors write edit summaries in jargony shorthand unfriendly to new editors ("r/re" for reply, "ce" for copyedit, if there is an edit summary at all).
Who would benefit: Page history readers and new editors
Proposed solution: Identify common types of edits and either offer or default to suggested edit summaries for simple edits: replies (new, indented comments), minor copyedits (a few characters tweaked), resolving an error, adding/removing X parameter in Y citation, all things a computer can identify.
Support + more checkboxes (or auto filling edit summary based on) for minor changes (like typo; categotries etc.) - often summary is longer than correction. => uniffied entries. Zombie(CZ) (talk) 11:43, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Even if mostly accurate (which I believe would take a huge amount of work), you might spend more time checking accuracy and correcting mistaken suggestions than you would just typing "copyedit", or forget to check and leave misleading summaries all over the place (or if it forces you to accept the predicted summary then we're back to the problem of this being slower than not having the feature). I think people type "ce" because they don't care, not because it's too cumbersome to. This is a user behaviour problem, not an interface problem. — Bilorv (talk) 09:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Bilorv. Frankly, when WMF's devs can't even get basic HTML-specs-compliance taken care of, after 15+ years of the same bug reports about the same problems being open, the idea of them taking on advanced AI stuff is both wrongheaded and farcical. — SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 06:49, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I could imagine a scenario in which this proposal and one further up about checkboxes for types of minor edits kind of pool together -- edit summary tags, for example. But anyway. This seems like something I'd probably turn off the first few times the suggestions are just wrong, ya know? EEMIV (talk) 14:54, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Imetsia (talk) 18:47, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Neutral Modern browsers can already remember edit summaries you've made. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 19:22, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Oppose Even if mostly accurate (which I believe would take a huge amount of work), you might spend more time checking accuracy and correcting mistaken suggestions than you would just typing "copyedit", or forget to check and leave misleading summaries all over the place (or if it forces you to accept the predicted summary then we're back to the problem of this being slower than not having the feature). I think people type "ce" because they don't care, not because it's too cumbersome to. This is a user behaviour problem, not an interface problem. — Bilorv (talk) 09:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
