Hello,
Could someone tell the mathematical expression that would enable me to calculate how many days new users are prevented from editing semi-protected pages on the French Wikipedia ? The English Wikipedia page [[Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy]] says "Very new" is currently defined as four days", but that does not seem to be the case on the French Wikipédia, as a 6 day long new user tells that she still can't edit a semi-protected page. Could we have a {{NUMBEROFDAYSNEWUSERSCANTEDITSEMIPROTECTEDPAGES}} magic word/variable so that we can know for sure how long this is, and tell new users exactly how long they will have to wait ?
folengo@netcourrier.com wrote:
Could someone tell the mathematical expression that would enable me to calculate how many days new users are prevented from editing semi-protected pages on the French Wikipedia ?
Four.
The English Wikipedia page [[Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy]] says "Very new" is currently defined as four days", but that does not seem to be the case on the French Wikipédia, as a 6 day long new user tells that she still can't edit a semi-protected page.
Perhaps there's some other problem, then. For instance, maybe the page isn't actually semi-protected. Maybe the user registered more recently and miscounted. Maybe they clicked the wrong thing. Maybe something about the page or the account changed.
There's nothing more I could possibly hope to say about it without some information to look into the problem. For starters I will need:
1) The name of the page in question 2) The username of the user in question
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 5/26/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
folengo@netcourrier.com wrote:
Could someone tell the mathematical expression that would enable me to calculate how many days new users are prevented from editing semi-protected pages on the French Wikipedia ?
Four.
Is this the canonical answer? There seemed to have been a lot of discussion about this, and the formula being something like "older than 1% of users". Then there were rumours that this would work out at about 4 days, which most people accepted.
In the end, was it fixed at 4 days (96 hours), or is that still an approximation?
Steve
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 5/26/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
folengo@netcourrier.com wrote:
Could someone tell the mathematical expression that would enable me to calculate how many days new users are prevented from editing semi-protected pages on the French Wikipedia ?
Four.
Is this the canonical answer?
Yes.
There seemed to have been a lot of discussion about this, and the formula being something like "older than 1% of users".
That used to be used for a few things. It's obsolete. Anyone who told you that is current information is misinformed.
In the end, was it fixed at 4 days (96 hours), or is that still an approximation?
4 days exactly (4*86400 seconds).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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