[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Anons can no longer make minor edits

[Erik Moeller]

> 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.

You do have a good point: Minor edits mean different things to different  
people. We should try to develop a clear policy for when to mark edits as  
minor.

Regards,

Erik