Help:Automatic edit summaries
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Removing all content from the page, bringing its page size to 0 bytes | ←Blanked the page | MediaWiki:Autosumm-blank |
| Removing all content from the page and replaced it with other text | ←Replaced content with "$1" | MediaWiki:Autosumm-replace |
| Creating a new page | ←Created page with "$1" | MediaWiki:Autosumm-new |
| Creating a new page with no content in it | ←Created blank page | MediaWiki:Autosumm-newblank |
| Creating a new redirect | ←Redirected page to $1 | MediaWiki:Autoredircomment |
| Changing the target of a redirect | ←Changed redirect target from $1 to $2 | MediaWiki:Autosumm-changed-redirect-target |
| Removing a redirect from the page | ←Removed redirect to $1 | MediaWiki:Autosumm-removed-redirect |
| Undoing an edit by clicking "undo" in the page history | Undid revision $1 by $2 (talk) | MediaWiki:Undo-summary |
| Performing a rollback | Reverted edits by $2 (talk) to last version by $1 | MediaWiki:Revertpage |
| Performing a rollback on an edit with a hidden username | Reverted edits by a hidden user to last version by $1 | MediaWiki:Revertpage-nouser |