Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 2 (section)

== I have been a user for x days ==

Is there a little bit of code/boilerplate or what have you I can add to my user page that says "I have been a wikipedian for..." and then inserts the days automatically?  I know Wikipedia KNOWS because it didn't let me vote in an election for being too new. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod]] 17:38, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)

:No, there is no such function, nor is it possible to get a direct tally of edits. [[User:Sverdrup|&#9999; Sverdrup]] 16:08, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

::I bet wwhen you say ''it's not possible'' you really mean there is nothing currently set up to do it.  ;o)    I'm sure it is ''possible''.  My instinct is that, like the ''page counters'' that I'm told used to exist, the concern is the extra strain on the servers?  Which is fair enough.  Lord knows the server speed must come first - I want to be able to get my edits done efficiently much more than I want to know how many days I've spent doing them (which is easy enough to calculate manually) ;o) --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod]] 16:26, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

:::From what I've heard said about edit counts, it's more to help avoid "I've been here longer/made more edits/started more pages" pissing matches. -- [[User:Cyrius|Cyrius]]|[[User talk:Cyrius|&#9998;]] 17:45, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

::::You think? I was hoping our devs were planning to put it in in a new update sometime soon. [[User:Sverdrup|&#9999; Sverdrup]] 01:06, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)