<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/4/2003 4:22:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, krooger@debian.org writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">think there shouldn't be any "minor edits" flag at all; we have the<BR>
ability to have the software determine if an edit is "minor"; why not<BR>
let the software flag a change as minor in the html if only a few bytes<BR>
have changed? We already do something similar for the links on article<BR>
pages, where we classify the links according to their size.<BR>
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Jonathan<BR>
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Because a minor edit is determined by more than just byte size. Adding one word (such as "not") can change the meaning of an article, but a bot might consider that a minor edit, while a lot of little typo fixes could be missed.<BR>
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Danny</FONT></HTML>