comments on the wiki

[matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com]

Jane Silber writes: 

> 
>>>What do you all think about making the comment field mandatory?
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>>For small changes I don't bother with it as the diff will make it obvious.
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> True, but that requires the extra step of looking at the diffs before
> you know if it's a minor change or not.  Even a small comment like
> "typo" or "format" would make it clear that it's a small change and
> allow people to understand what has changed without looking at each and
> every page (which is, after all, a main purpose of RecentChanges).

I agree that its good practice to insert comments and that it really helps 
to figure out what is going on. I don't have any problem with making it 
mandatory, although the coolest thing would be to make it mandatory, except 
for where the user ticks the "Trivial Changes" box. That way the question of 
small changes is dealt with. 

Also, if trivial changes could be marked as such on the RecentChanges page, 
that would be nice (I don't think they are currently, although I'm not 100% 
sure). 

Matt