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On 1/3/03 10:56 AM, "Erik Moeller" <e.moeller@fokus.gmd.de> 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.

This is a wikipedia-l issue, not wikitech-l issue.

The Cunctator <cunctator=+4VDYf+6WHMAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote
in news:BA3BAE8A.5DF3%cunctator@kband.com:


>
> This is a wikipedia-l issue, not wikitech-l issue.
>

If it is for all wikipedia's, it is a Intlwiki-l issue. Wikipedia-l is only
the second list of en.wikipedia.

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> If it is for all wikipedia's, it is a Intlwiki-l issue. Wikipedia-l is only
> the second list of en.wikipedia.

intwiki-l should be abolished and the wikipedia / wikien-l distinction
should be more actively enforced.

Regards,

Erik

Giskart wrote:
> If it is for all wikipedia's, it is a Intlwiki-l issue. Wikipedia-l is only
> the second list of en.wikipedia.

This is a misunderstanding. Wikipedia-l is for policy issues for all wikipedias.
Intlwiki-l is for discussion of specific issues of internationalization.

--Jimbo

On ven, 2003-01-03 at 07:56, Erik Moeller 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.

Thanks, that's a start! Should go into effect shortly as I make upgrades
tonight...

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

The Cunctator wrote:
> This is a wikipedia-l issue, not wikitech-l issue.
>

This /is/ a Wikiteck-l issue because allowing anon users the ability to make
minor edits was a bug. Phase two /did not/ allow anon users to make minor
edits and this feature was lost when Phase III was written.

Erik Moeller wrote:
> > If it is for all wikipedia's, it is a Intlwiki-l issue. Wikipedia-l is
> > only the second list of en.wikipedia.
>
> intwiki-l should be abolished and the wikipedia / wikien-l distinction
> should be more actively enforced.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik

I disagree. IntlWiki-l should be about non-policy related interlanguage
coordination issues and it should serve as the general mailing list for any
Wikipedia language that does not yet have a mailing list.

Wikipedia-L is the /policy/ mailing list. General mailing lists are language
specific if there is enough traffic to substantiate having a separate list or
Intlwiki-L is used.

Giskart wrote
> If it is for all wikipedia's, it is a Intlwiki-l issue. Wikipedia-l is only
> the second list of en.wikipedia.

See above about Intlwiki-l. Wikipedia-L is about policy for the whole project.
There still is some talk on that list that is en.wiki specific but that's
only because that list for /so/ long about project-wide policy and general
en.wiki business.



--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)