Elly Waterman elly.waterman-at-wanadoo.nl |wikipedia| wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sascha Noyes" sascha-5OWuIOc6HaDk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 6:33 PM Subject: Re: Minor changes by anonymous user
The problem is that anonymous users don't have a "click-box" (whatever the correct term is) to mark their edits as minor. Meaning that this person is doing it in some as-of-yet unknown way.
Best , Sascha Noyes --
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.
So please, some advice, Elly
I've found a simple bug that would make it possible for anonymous users to mark edits as minor. Exploiting it seems to require at least a little bit of effort, though. But in any case, I think you can safely assume this problem will soon be fixed.
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