Hello,
Is there an agreed definition of what is or is not a "minor edit"? I
haven't been able to find one, so I've just been guessing. I suspect that
most people are just guessing. So if it's such a big deal to people,
perhaps there should be clearer guidelines on what should or should not be
marked as a minor edit. Perhaps the "minor edit" box should have a link by
it, with the text "What is a minor edit?", linking to a page of such
guidelines.
As for naughty people sneaking in major changes by pretending that they
are minor, it wouldn't make any difference what the defaults were. Even
with the "minor edit" box not ticked by default, all someone has to do is
click on it - hardly a difficult task for our hypothetical naughty person!
If anyone is worried about people doing this, the only thing they can do
is deselect the option to hide minor edits from the "Recent changes" page.
Oliver
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| Oliver Pereira |
| Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science |
| University of Southampton |
| omp199(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk |
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