https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44361
Steven Walling <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|GettingStarted's tags need |Only tag edits via |to be temporary |GettingStarted if the user | |is actually new --- Comment #4 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #3) > The general trend of permanently tagging edits should be examined. Other > sites > engage in similar practices (such as Facebook marking mobile posts), but > whether this is a good thing or whether it should be encouraged is up for > debate. > > In this case, I don't think permanently marking someone's first edits after > you've secretly tagged them as part of an experiment that they didn't opt in > to > is a good idea. Do other bad tags exist? Yes, but those aren't really > relevant > here. It sounds like you have a general problem with permanent tags. I think our actual enhancement is to not tag edits of users who aren't new anymore if they make further edits via Special:GettingStarted, e.g. if you're autoconfirmed don't tag their edit, even if if comes via GettingStarted. That's an enhacement we should make, but it's not the same thing as altering MediaWiki tags so they're there one minute and gone the next. That's unexpected and broken behavior according to how tags currently work in all other cases. I've changed the bug title to reflect what we're actually going to do around tagging in GettingStarted, to ensure that the tag is accurate. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
