I don't like software automation, because I don't
really trust software (and I do write software).
Automated minor-change flagging would be
disastrous. As Engels pointed, many vandals just
change one or two characters.
--Optim
--- Andre Engels <engelsAG(a)t-online.de> wrote:
"Rob Hooft" <rob(a)hooft.net> schrieb:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> The "minor changes" (in the meaning it has
in traditional wikis)
feature is dead.
Would it be possible to automatically detect
what are small changes?
e.g. a small change would have:
*only interwiki changes
or:
*no more than two adjacent characters changed
in the text and not more
than 10 in total possibly excepting the
addition or removal of [[ and ]]
(but even that could be vandalism if in
excess).
If that would be implemented, the checkbox
could go altogether.
That has clear disadvantages - many actually
minor changes would not
be flagged minor, but it would be possible to
get non-minor changes
that would.
Changing "John lived for almost 10 years in
[[Oxford]]." to
"John lived for nearly 10 years in [[Oxford]]"
or "John lived for
almost 10 years in [[Oxford, England|Oxford]]"
would not be small
changes this way, but changing it to "John
lived for almost 90 years
in [[Oxford]]." would.
Andre Engels
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