[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Anons can no longer make minor edits

Sat Jan 4 23:01:55 UTC 2003

In a message dated 1/4/2003 4:22:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
krooger at debian.org writes:

> think there shouldn't be any "minor edits" flag at all; we have the
> ability to have the software determine if an edit is "minor"; why not
> let the software flag a change as minor in the html if only a few bytes
> have changed?  We already do something similar for the links on article
> pages, where we classify the links according to their size.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 

Because a minor edit is determined by more than just byte size. Adding one 
word (such as "not") can change the meaning of an article, but a bot might 
consider that a minor edit, while a lot of little typo fixes could be missed.

Danny
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