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(a)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(a)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?
>
> 1) Put the "minor edit" box back
> 2) 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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