[WikiEN-l] Minor changes by anonymous user

Wed Jan 28 18:27:04 UTC 2004

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Optim wrote:

> As Anthropos said, I would also have no problem
> to disable this feature (minor changes)
> completely. I also never pay attention to that
> thing.
>
> But, To some users the minor changes seem useful.
> I would say to keep this feature and improve it.

Due to abuse of this feature in the past by other contributors,
I tend to use this feature only when I could justify the change
as a minor change (e.g., typos, spelling). Even a format change
might be considered by some as a significant change.
>
> So, I agree with Carl Witty.
>
> For the future, we can also do this:
> A lot of checkboxes (NOT option boxes) under the
> edit summary textbox which will include:
> X Spelling/Grammar Fix
> X Copyedit, same meaning
> X New content
> X Factual correction
> X NPOV editing
> X Removal of unnecessary info
> X Link correction
> X Addition of new wikilinks or external links
> X Major rewrite
>
> how do you think?
>
> Of course this requires more development effort.
> So that's why I said "for the future".
>
About the only options you omitted from your list
(exmpting specific reasons for an edit, such as the
humorous example, "Genghis Khan never conquered
St. Louis") that I've used were "typo", "fixing my
mistake", & "formatting".

I've seen a number of variations on "disambiguating link"
from other contributors, some abbreviated to the point I
didn't know what they were talking about.

Geoff