On Jan 24, 2004, at 11:56, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:30:25AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
In fact I find it downright insulting that I'm not trusted to mark a spelling correction as "minor" without logging in.
There are serious historical reasons for that. As in older wikis, "minor" on Wikipedia used to mean "don't show in Recent Changes by default".
That was the case in phase 1 (on UseModWiki), but it was never the case on phase 2 / phase 3 software.
<rant> A ruthless minority of people who chose to use the "hide minor edits" feature decided they were too lazy to look through all edits to find vandalism and bitched until the minor edits checkbox was taken away to get them to shut up. </rant>
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)