New subject: [Wikitech-l] Anons can no longer make minor edits

4 Jan 2003

At 12:00 04/01/2003 +0000, Cunc 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. 
"Until it can be better discussed"? What does that mean? Do we have to wait 
until a full moon or something?

Seriously - I for one do actually trust some anon users enough to ignore 
their edits, and don't really think this is such a great change. I should 
think that people who are concerned about cleaning up vandalism and so on 
have minor edits switched on anyway, so isn't this just going to thrust a 
lot of edits that minor-edit-ignorers don't care about onto their Recent 
Changes pages? I may be wrong, but I think the majority of anon users can 
be trusted (just as the majority of signed in users can be trusted).

I note, by the way, that a lot of anon users do still to be making edits 
marked as "minor". So has this really been implemented?

LP (camembert)

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