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

[Jimmy Wales]

The Cunctator wrote:
> On 1/3/03 10:56 AM, "Erik Moeller" <e.moeller at fokus.gmd.de> 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.

This was discussed and decided a long time ago.  It was only an
accident that it got changed back.

--Jimbo