(Doug wrote on bug 27860 comment #9)
> There was never any reason to make this change. The correct change as noted by
> Nemo_bis, was to uncheck the box by default and possibly remove the option to
> change this to checked by default, not remove the box from new pages
> altogether. Nobody ever really asked for that change; two alternatives were
> presented and one was simply implemented without comment as to why that was
> perceived as the better alternative.
>
> Additionally, the original problem was characterized as being for making a "New
> Section" not creating a page, a new section to an already existing page is
> actually less likely to be minor than a new page is. This should be reverted
> unless there is a wiki that thinks it actually needs it to be turned on - that
> is that they never have minor page creations even for redirects - unless you're
> a bot, bots can still create new pages as minor.
The new behaviour of the preference must be triggered by a new configuration variable, false by default.
Target milestone 1.20.x as this catastrophic behaviour change for such an important preference should not affect more releases.
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**Version**: 1.18.x
**Severity**: major