https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55980
Nemo <federicol...@tiscali.it> changed:
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--- Comment #8 from Nemo <federicol...@tiscali.it> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> In Special:Watchlist, the "Show/Hide logged-in users" functionality should
> say
> "Show/Hide registered users" since this feature is not actually showing or
> hiding logged-in users but showing and hiding registered users.
You look confused here: it's not doing either; it hides/shows *edits* by
registered users, while they were logged in.
Maybe we instead need to clarify that the selectors are about edits? The
confusion in comment 0 may be sign of a more general misunderstanding.
We currently say "minor edits", "patrolled edits" and "my edits"; we could also
say "automated edits", "anonymous edits" and "logged-in edits" instead of
"bots", "anonymous users" and "logged-in users".
> A registered
> user may or may not be logged-in and that information is private.
Sure, but if they don't login we will never know that the edit was made by
them, while if they login the information will be stored forever.
For a largely surreal discussion on such semantics, see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymous_editor_acquisition#Anonymous_vs_Unregistered
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