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{{Nutshell|An automatic edit summary (which should link to this page via a left-pointing arrow ←) is automatically generated when the user did not provide an edit summary, and is usually not written by the user in question.}}
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An '''automatic edit summary''' is an [[m:Edit summary|edit summary]] that was automatically filled by the [[wikipedia:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software. They are added during certain circumstances and when the user saves their edit without providing an edit summary. In short, the user probably did '''not''' type the edit summary.
An '''automatic edit summary''' is an [[m:Edit summary|edit summary]] that was automatically filled by the [[wikipedia:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] software. They are added during certain circumstances and when the user saves their edit without providing an edit summary. In short, the user probably did '''not''' type the edit summary.


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==See also==
==See also==
* [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries|Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries]]
* [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries|Wikipedia:Automatic edit summaries]]
* [[metawikimedia:Help:Edit summary#Automatic summaries|Automatic edit summaries]] on MetaWiki
* [[m:Help:Edit summary#Automatic summaries|Automatic edit summaries]] on MetaWiki

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An automatic edit summary (which should link to this page via a left-pointing arrow ←) is automatically generated when the user did not provide an edit summary, and is usually not written by the user in question.
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An automatic edit summary is an edit summary that was automatically filled by the MediaWiki software. They are added during certain circumstances and when the user saves their edit without providing an edit summary. In short, the user probably did not type the edit summary.

The different automatic edit summaries

Action of the user Auto-generated text ($1 being a variable) Page
Removed all content from the page, bringing its page size to 0 bytes Blanked the page MediaWiki:Autosumm-blank
Removed all content from the page and replaced it with other text Replaced content with "$1" MediaWiki:Autosumm-replace
Created a new page Created page with "$1" MediaWiki:Autosumm-new
Created a new redirect, or changed the target of an existing one Redirected page to $1 MediaWiki:Autoredircomment
Added a new category using the "Add Category" button on the bottom of articles Adding categories MediaWiki:Categoryselect-edit-summary
Edited a gallery using the "Add an image to this gallery" button Editing a gallery MediaWiki:WikiaPhotoGallery-edit-summary

Why aren't some edit summaries listed?

Some edit summaries are automatically generated like the ones above; however, they do not have a left-pointing arrow and they are not listed. These edit summaries include the "Undo" and "Rollback" functions, which automatically fill the edit summary field. "Undo" is not listed as the user has the opportunity to modify the edit summary before saving. "Rollback" is not listed as the above summaries can typically be modified or bypassed by the user, and rollback does not provide this option. Rollback also predates automatic edit summaries in the MediaWiki software and thus is ambiguous — see wikipedia:MediaWiki talk:Revertpage#AES.

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