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Steps: Visit http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/javascript/methods/getDate Expected: Text for getDate without warnings Actual: Text after title/before content: "You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: "You must confirm your e-mail address before editing pages. Please set and validate your e-mail address through your user preferences." Notes: I only visited the regular page, and did not attempt to edit it. I also didn't get a confirmation email when signing up, so can't follow those steps either.
This is on any page, not just the one linked in the bug report above. Looks like it shows up when you have signed up for an account, but not confirmed the email. Probably not a big issue as most people will just confirm their email address. Maybe high traffic has caused me not to get the confirmation email (checked spam etc). Ideally the message would only show when trying to edit a page, not just viewing it. Or it could possibly get some styling to make it clear the warning is not page content. Its class is "permissions-errors"
Requiring an email to be confirmed before editing is the way the system is setup. This perhaps needs to be made more clear so I will work on finding a place to do that if it hasn't been already.
The Getting Started Guide [1] already pointed out the requirement of email verification. I did go in and bold that statement so that it will hopefully point it out more to people. It is located in the second sentence. [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Getting_Started