Right now, querying for beginner editors is fairly slow (which mostly causes very slow queries in edit search). This is mostly because we have to calculate all the conditions for whether a user qualifies as beginner every time. After discussion with the team, we decided we should add a privilege for beginners, which is present by default on new editors, and removed as part of CheckVotes.pl when processing votes on the hour, assuming the user got enough edits and is old enough.

A script will be needed to add the privilege to any existing editors that should still be marked as beginners.