Jonathan Walther (Clutch, right?) wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
>There's a new preference in CVS now to have
edits minor by default, as
>per someone's request on wikipedia-l. This may be helpful for
>copyeditors. I haven't added it to the other Language* files (except for
>German) yet.
How many people actually find this distinction between
major/minor edits
useful?
I do; even though I don't hide minor edits,
I get an idea about what to expect;
if it's from a user whose practices I know,
I may choose to ignore a minor edit.
Most of us leave minor edits enabled anyway, so we can
see
potential vandals try to sneak by. Shouldn't that be part of the social
contract? For the benefit you receive from the Wikipedia, you need to
be in a position where you can see the litter if you decide to be an
editor?
The litter is visible to every reader, editor or no.
I don't think that anybody should be required to
take steps to expose themselves to the litter,
even to the extent of view a list of minor recent changes.
Editing Wikipedia should be easy and require nothing
besides observance of NPOV, our encyclopædic nature,
and (in edit conflicts) a willingness to work with others.
Which is about what mav proposed we put on a
<terms and conditions of use> page.
What about that idea? I liked it!
-- Toby