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Rob Church wrote:
On wikis where recent changes patrol ($wgUseRCPatrol)
is enabled,
users who are permitted to mark edits as patrolled (administrators,
usually) have an additional user preference; when enabled, this causes
their edits to be automatically marked as patrolled. I added this some
time ago.
I'm wondering whether or not it would have been a better idea for me
to simply make this the default behaviour, and do away with the toggle
altogether; it certainly makes more sense now, on reflection.
Yes!
Preferences are evil; they multiply code complexity, tech support
burden, and the user's mental model of the site leading to more mistakes
made.
New preferences should very rarely be added.
- -- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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