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by denton-scratch 1299 days ago
Mobile wikipedia editors annoy me. They tend to make mis-spelled edits (it's hard to edit on a mobile, and predictive text also screws things up). And it seems to me that mobile editors tend not to bother with an edit summary.

Adding 1,500 characters to an article with no edit summary pisses me off. Especially if the additions are sprinkled all over the article. And especially especially, if the edit also involves removing material.

I often see edit summaries of the form "I added information". These often seem to be vandalism. I don't think any developer would add a commit with a message starting with "I ...". If I see such an edit summary, I usually take a closer look.