Last modified: 2013-01-18 19:21:00 UTC
After a discussion on IRC today about the new extension, an editor went out and edited an article through [[Special:GettingStarted]], and ended up having it tagged as a "new user getting started" (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gnanananda_Giri&diff=prev&oldid=533614552) It might be useful to have a check to see whether the user is actually a new user (maybe check if autoconfirmed?) before tagging the edit. I can imagine that there will be some users who will use [[Special:GettingStarted]] to find a quick task to do even if they aren't new, so it would be helpful to differentiate between the actual new editors.
The number of revisions not actually made by new users is so low that I don't think this is an issue worth revising the tagging code for. This is actually the only example I've seen, from examining the user ids of GettingStarted editors since we added the tag. The fact that this is very much an edge case, plus the fact that the threshold for "new" is very vague (5 edits? 10 edits? Autoconfirmed?), leads me to think we should hold off on making this change until it becomes really necessary.
