[WikiEN-l] Most useless edit summary ever?

Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 15:10:53 UTC 2007


On 10/20/07, Brock Weller <brock.weller at gmail.com> wrote:
> In all fairness I hate that check box, I mark none of my edits as minor,
> because I want them all to show up to everyone who wishes to review them,
> and marking it as minor hides it from some users, so I'll say minor edit in
> the summary, but I'll also atleast vaguely refer to what I did.

In all fairness, wouldn't you then do a disservice to those who have
clearly opted to "hide minor edits" (not the default mode) in the
recentchanges or watchlist? Or should the button for that feature say
"ignore minor edits by normal people who properly mark them as such".
:p

—C.W.



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