[arch-general] Wiki - Error: Warning: You have not provided an edit summary... I did comply with 3 fundamental rules
All, The wiki has become almost impossible to help with. After experiencing an error transferring to my Arch samba shares and finding the solution on Apple.Stackexchange.com I was adding that short section to the end of the troubleshooting entires. However, despite providing an edit summary and complying with the remaining 2 fundamental rules, I cannot save the edit. I get the Error: Error: Warning: You have not provided an edit summary, which is an enormous help for other users who want to review your changes, see ArchWiki:Contributing#The 3 fundamental rules. Over the past 11 years the wiki has increasing become hostile to user contributions. I hope this is a temporary bug. In the past the community made our Archwiki the best Linux distro wiki going by keeping it current and providing solutions to current problems. The Archwikin was a one-stop-shop. If the community can no longer contribute, it will cease to be so. The entry I was adding is: === IOS Files can no longer copy-to Samba share on Archlinux beginning with IOS 14.5=== Beginning with IOS 14.5 attempting to transfer from a device running IOS using the "Files" app to a samba share on Archlinux will result in the error: The operation couldn't be completed Operation canceled To correct this problem, add add the following to the global section of your {{ic|smb.conf}} and restart samba (e.g. {{ic|sudo systemctl restart smb}}). Comment optional: ## addition for IOS Files transfer-to server vfs object = fruit streams_xattr See [https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/424681 Apple.Stackexchange.com - "The operation couldn't be completed"/"Operation canceled" error message when saving to a Samba share via Files app] The edit summary was: /* Added Section - IOS Files can no longer copy-to Samba share on Archlinux beginning with IOS 14.5 */ I will have to leave it to one of the Archdevs to add. No matter what I do, I'm returned to the same error: Error: Warning: You have not provided an edit summary, which is an enormous help for other users who want to review your changes, see ArchWiki:Contributing#The 3 fundamental rules. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 05/02/22 at 02:35pm, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
The wiki has become almost impossible to help with. … Over the past 11 years the wiki has increasing become hostile to user contributions. I hope this is a temporary bug.
This is hyperbole, and unfounded. I get your frustration, but don't malign the team that works tremendously hard to maintain the wiki.
The edit summary was:
/* Added Section - IOS Files can no longer copy-to Samba share on Archlinux beginning with IOS 14.5 */
See the note here, your issue is explicitly addressed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ArchWiki:Contributing#Always_properly_use_t... -- // jwr
On 2/5/22 3:06 PM, Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote:
On 05/02/22 at 02:35pm, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
The wiki has become almost impossible to help with. … Over the past 11 years the wiki has increasing become hostile to user contributions. I hope this is a temporary bug.
This is hyperbole, and unfounded. I get your frustration, but don't malign the team that works tremendously hard to maintain the wiki.
The edit summary was:
/* Added Section - IOS Files can no longer copy-to Samba share on Archlinux beginning with IOS 14.5 */
See the note here, your issue is explicitly addressed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ArchWiki:Contributing#Always_properly_use_t...
Okay: Note: When clicking Edit on a section header, /* Section name */ gets prefilled in the summary field. It is not a comment syntax. The text between /* and */ gets turned in a link to a section of the page. So what is your point? I've edited the wiki hundreds of time and I fill in the edit summary per the directions and it always works -- until now. I fill in an edit summary explaining: "... in a succinct way, what has been done and why ..." And yes, this is frustrating. What is the magic-trick here that was not a magic-trick before? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 05/02/22 at 08:23pm, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
On 2/5/22 3:06 PM, Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote:
On 05/02/22 at 02:35pm, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
The wiki has become almost impossible to help with. … Over the past 11 years the wiki has increasing become hostile to user contributions. I hope this is a temporary bug.
This is hyperbole, and unfounded. I get your frustration, but don't malign the team that works tremendously hard to maintain the wiki.
The edit summary was:
/* Added Section - IOS Files can no longer copy-to Samba share on Archlinux beginning with IOS 14.5 */
See the note here, your issue is explicitly addressed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ArchWiki:Contributing#Always_properly_use_t...
Okay:
Note: When clicking Edit on a section header, /* Section name */ gets prefilled in the summary field. It is not a comment syntax. The text between /* and */ gets turned in a link to a section of the page.
So what is your point? I've edited the wiki hundreds of time and I fill in the edit summary per the directions and it always works -- until now.
I fill in an edit summary explaining:
"... in a succinct way, what has been done and why ..."
And yes, this is frustrating. What is the magic-trick here that was not a magic-trick before?
The “magic-trick” is to append the summary after the section name, so that it makes sense in the history and in people's inboxes. See my edit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Samba#IOS_Files_can_no_longer_copy-to_Samba... -- // jwr
On 2/5/22 8:33 PM, Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote:
And yes, this is frustrating. What is the magic-trick here that was not a magic-trick before?
The “magic-trick” is to append the summary after the section name, so that it makes sense in the history and in people's inboxes. See my edit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Samba#IOS_Files_can_no_longer_copy-to_Samba...
Thank you -- perfect :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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