As Anthropos said, I would also have no problem to disable this feature (minor changes) completely. I also never pay attention to that thing.
But, To some users the minor changes seem useful. I would say to keep this feature and improve it.
So, I agree with Carl Witty.
For the future, we can also do this: A lot of checkboxes (NOT option boxes) under the edit summary textbox which will include: X Spelling/Grammar Fix X Copyedit, same meaning X New content X Factual correction X NPOV editing X Removal of unnecessary info X Link correction X Addition of new wikilinks or external links X Major rewrite
how do you think?
Of course this requires more development effort. So that's why I said "for the future".
--Optim
--- Rich Holton rich_holton@yahoo.com wrote:
Frankly, I can't see the point of having a minor changes setting. Far too often significant changes are listed as minor, and minor changes as significant. Often this occurs by accident. Other times, it's someone hiding their actions. There also seems to be no universal agreement on what kind of change is "minor".
So, I ignore the "minor change" indication on recent changes and elsewhere (though I do try to mark my edits appropriately). The feature could disappear entirely, and I'd only be pleased.
Rich Holton (a.k.a. Anthropos)
--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Carl Witty proposes a feature enhancement:
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 15:26, Elly Waterman
wrote:
Indeed, and in addition, I like to switch
off
the Minor Changes to
watch only for the Bigger Changes, by
regular
users and ALL CHANGES by
anonymous users, among which unluckily
are some
vandals. If vandals
can in some way click this nonexisting
box, they
can do their hobby
unnoticed, at least by me, and other
sysops who
work in this way.
If people don't like removing the "minor
edit" box
for anonymous users,
how about this?
- Put the "minor edit" box back
- Have 3 states for "Recent Changes": show
all
edits, hide minor
changes, hide minor changes from
logged-in
users
This should satisfy everybody at (I assume)
a
fairly small cost in
software effort.
(I actually like not having the "minor
edit" box
as an anonymous user;
it helps me remember to log in!)
Let's hear some "me too" and/or "no way"
posts on
this one!
Ed Poor Developer
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