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0 pointsmgdlbp4y ago0 comments

Ah, that's right—need to have had an account for four days and... to have clicked the 'Edit' button at least once?

That's what the linked page says (I'm not familiar with Dutch Wikipedia specifics), but that seems like such a strange statistic to track instead of minimum edit count.

So weird that I looked up how to configure MediaWiki autoconfirm requirements. They probably mean a minimum of one edit. Auto-confirmation considers only age and edit count, and I don't see why clicking 'Edit' is so meaningful a condition to warrant developing an extension.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Autoconfirmed_users

Searching about extensions did lead to discovering an obscure feature: there's now a built-in URL shortener: https://w.wiki/Q8

Edit: interestingly, the single-character ones seem to have been pre-planned: https://w.wiki/e, https://w.wiki/E, https://w.wiki/4

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CRConrad4y ago· 1 in thread

> need to have had an account for four days and... to have clicked the 'Edit' button at least once

In the Dutch WP? Because otherwise I should qualify.

mgdlbpOP4y ago

Yep; the account for each wiki is automatically created the first time you visit that wiki, and rights are mostly local.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login

You can list your local accounts at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth

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