The question as phrased at the beginning of this thread is inaccurate.
The discussion at phabricator is *not* about "What should be the autoconfirmed
age and article count in the Hebrew Wikipedia". The request there is twofold:
1. To create in Hebrew Wikipedia an "extendedconfirmed" group, the
As a long-time cross-platform user, I have been checking user rights for
years. These flag systems have strong differences among platforms.
They originate from lack of perspective, sometimes.. some long-time users have
no interest in analyzing them, there is a lack of literacy about flag
There's no evidence behind the majority of policies of any Wikimedia
project, so I don't think that's really an expectation.
As to enwiki, it appears that the 4-day threshold was in place well before
2008, but the 10-edit threshold was added in 2008:
