At 12:00 05/01/2003 +0000, Jonathan Walther wrote:
It might well be "a win from a usability point of view" inasmuch as one=20 doesn't have to click on a pesky check box if one's edit is minor, but thi=
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is surely outweighed by the fact that those "M"s on Recent Changes would=
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all become unreliable (instead of just some of them being unreliable).
I'm not sure you understand. The M flag on Recent Changes is unreliable RIGHT NOW. What is a minor fix to one person may be a major point of theology to the next person. One persons raftload of spelling fixes may be minor to one person, but important to another. Since the Minor flag is essentially meaningless, we wouldn't notice any difference if it just went away altogether.
No, I understand - the current system isn't perfect. That's because people aren't perfect. But I trust people to decide what is minor and what isn't more than I trust a computer to do it, particularly as the computer is only going to be counting bytes to make a decision.
I agree we need some sort of guidance about what constitutes a minor edit, which is why I'm glad we've got such guidance on http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_FAQ
LP (camembert)
I keep forgetting to enclose wikikarma - here's two: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inigo_Jones (new) http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Masque&diff=0&oldid=5609...