Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen wrote:
2007/6/7, David Strauss <david@fourkitchens.com>:
Minor edits are only marked as such for human interpretation. There is no difference in the software handling.
Actually, differentiating between "major" and "minor" (or minor and regular) edits enable people to only watch major/regular edits and skip the minor ones if they want (this applies both to MediaWiki, MoinMoin, and probably a fair share of other wiki systems).[1] Whether or not reviosioning goes in to be default, I'd actually like a check box to mark edits as minor or not - even if only to tell whether it is a simple comma correction edit or a major refactoring of a page.
[1] A little ps.: My point was that if humans mark an edit as minor, software can handle it differently depending on ones settings - e.g. send a notification or not, show it in a list of recent changes or not, ...
True, the software does provide some tools to help people sort through major and minor edits. What I meant was that the real guts of the software don't care. There's merely a flag marking the edit as minor.