At 12:00 04/01/2003 +0000, Cunc wrote:
It is my understanding that this was the consensus, so I have disabled the "minor edit" checkbox for anonymous users. The reasoning here is that an anon can never gain the trust necessary to have his edits ignored by some users.
Note that the checkbox is simply not rendered, an anon can theoretically still get an edit marked as minor with URL magic. I'll try to get to that later.
This is not good. Please change it back until this can be better discussed.
"Until it can be better discussed"? What does that mean? Do we have to wait until a full moon or something?
Seriously - I for one do actually trust some anon users enough to ignore their edits, and don't really think this is such a great change. I should think that people who are concerned about cleaning up vandalism and so on have minor edits switched on anyway, so isn't this just going to thrust a lot of edits that minor-edit-ignorers don't care about onto their Recent Changes pages? I may be wrong, but I think the majority of anon users can be trusted (just as the majority of signed in users can be trusted).
I note, by the way, that a lot of anon users do still to be making edits marked as "minor". So has this really been implemented?
LP (camembert)
I note, by the way, that a lot of anon users do still to be making edits marked as "minor". So has this really been implemented?
Yes, it has. The code is currently in CVS and will go "live" as soon as Wikipedia is updated to the CVS code again. Because it isn't live yet I posted to wikitech-l where the developers hang out. I would have posted a separate announcement to wikipedia-l later, but Cunctator copied my post to wikipedia-l prematurely.
Regards,
Erik
On 1/4/03 3:46 PM, "Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
I note, by the way, that a lot of anon users do still to be making edits marked as "minor". So has this really been implemented?
Yes, it has. The code is currently in CVS and will go "live" as soon as Wikipedia is updated to the CVS code again. Because it isn't live yet I posted to wikitech-l where the developers hang out. I would have posted a separate announcement to wikipedia-l later, but Cunctator copied my post to wikipedia-l prematurely.
You misspelled "maturely".
Is there a simple way to make it so part of the wiki could be private, and in that section all private and public information would be accessable, while in the public section only the public data would be accessable?
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On sab, 2003-01-04 at 15:08, Jason "Rodzilla" Rodzik wrote:
Is there a simple way to make it so part of the wiki could be private, and in that section all private and public information would be accessable, while in the public section only the public data would be accessable?
No, nor will there ever be; Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a collection of private journals.
(Though if you were to set up your own wiki using the software we run Wikipedia on, you could modify it to provide such sections if you wished.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
What about different categories then? Each category would be like its own wiki, but without another installation. In this way things could spread out into different categories without worry of overlap, yet it'd still be integrated.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com To: "wikipedia-l" wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Private sections of the wiki
On sab, 2003-01-04 at 15:08, Jason "Rodzilla" Rodzik wrote:
Is there a simple way to make it so part of the wiki could be private,
and
in that section all private and public information would be accessable, while in the public section only the public data would be accessable?
No, nor will there ever be; Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a collection of private journals.
(Though if you were to set up your own wiki using the software we run Wikipedia on, you could modify it to provide such sections if you wished.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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