Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Editing/Expand "minor edits" checkbox-feature

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Expand "minor edits" checkbox-feature

• Problem: could be easier to keep track of recent changes
• Who would benefit: everyone checking for vandalism, everyone wanting to quickly describe, what has been done within an edit
• Proposed solution: add checkboxes and markers (like for minor edit and bot) e. g. for "spelling", "linkfix", "syntaxfix", "answer" (for discussions),...
• More comments: I suppose by adding this the list of recent changes becomes even more sortable
• Phabricator tickets:
• Proposer: HirnSpuk (talk) 11:57, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

• I don't think we can make more checkboxes that store these types of changes in the database, which sounds like what you're describing. However we could simulate this using change tags, which can then be used for filtering in recent changes. See also Predictive edit summaries based on changes to article text and Dropdown list option for edit summary which are about (semi-)automating edit summaries. MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 15:39, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support Imetsia (talk) 18:45, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support It should use change tags. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 18:58, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Dr747 (talk) 19:22, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Berdajeno (talk) 20:44, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Kisnaak (talk) 21:23, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ✍ Janwo ^Disk./_de:wp 03:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Ezlev (talk) 03:43, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support This would be beneficial for editors to mark their edits accordingly, and also patrollers to note if there are discrepancies. Sthakur88 (talk) 05:46, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Till.niermann (talk) 06:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Lion-hearted85 (talk) 10:45, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Zombie(CZ) (talk) 11:44, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Jjkorff (talk) 13:38, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Libcub (talk) 18:56, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose After more than two tags you'd need a checkbox dropdown and then I'm not sure how this is faster than typing "spelling" in the edit summary. I also don't know why this would be more meaningful/readable than an edit summary to users patrolling the changes (I don't want to hide all changes marked "Fixed typo"/"spelling" because a lot of vandals use such a canned edit summary). — Bilorv (talk) 09:23, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support This would also make clearer what is and is not a minor edit. VaneWimsey (talk) 02:30, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support A really good idea for expert wikpedians. Despotismo Ilustrado y Barroco (talk) 19:49, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Rdyornot (talk) 22:25, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ThomasLendt (talk) 15:31, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Hadi (talk) 18:03, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support This is useful so that I don't have to give edit summaries on small edits I make SuperSkaterDude45 (talk) 18:01, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support SeGiba (talk) 18:21, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Yilku1 (talk) 05:13, 21 December 2020 (UTC)