[WikiEN-l] Minor changes by anonymous user

Tue Jan 27 14:52:33 UTC 2004

Carl Witty proposes a feature enhancement:

> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 15:26, Elly Waterman wrote:
> > Indeed, and in addition, I like to switch off the Minor Changes to 
> > watch only for the Bigger Changes, by regular users and ALL CHANGES
by 
> > anonymous users, among which unluckily are some vandals. If vandals 
> > can in some way click this nonexisting box, they can do their hobby 
> > unnoticed, at least by me, and other sysops who work in this way.
> 
> If people don't like removing the "minor edit" box for anonymous
users, 
> how about this?
> 
> 1) Put the "minor edit" box back
> 2) Have 3 states for "Recent Changes": show all edits, hide minor 
>    changes, hide minor changes from logged-in users
>
> This should satisfy everybody at (I assume) a fairly small cost in 
> software effort.
>
> (I actually like not having the "minor edit" box as an anonymous user;

> it helps me remember to log in!)

Let's hear some "me too" and/or "no way" posts on this one!

Ed Poor
Developer