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allow editors to mark a revision/suggestion as minor #1980

@cellio

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@cellio

Purely as an informational matter, can we allow edits and suggested edits to be marked as minor? This would not change any workflows or bumping, though it could be a first step to such changes in the future. I'm envisioning:

  • add a checkbox on the edit page for "this is a minor edit" (JIT help for what's minor could go here)
  • if it's a suggested edit, show that on the review page too and allow the reviewer to toggle it (reviewers can edit revision comments already; suggested edits are not immutable)
  • in the post history, indicate that an edit was minor if it was (use case: don't want to bother to expand the diff and dig through it for a typo)

While a minimal implementation that doesn't change the schema would be possible if a little fragile (add the checkbox/button/whatever and use it to change the revision comment, for example), I suspect it would be better to actually record this flag in the database from the start (a new is_minor column, maybe). This will allow us to use the information in the future.

(Suggested in a discussion on the community server. I'm sure it's come up on meta too but don't have links right now.)

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