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Account coordinators want to be able to make informed decisions about whether to grant access to an editor or not. One aspect of this is whether the editor has indiscriminately applied to numerous publishers in one go. If this is the case, the coordinator might want to ask if the editor really needs this particular publisher's content.

In T186502, recent applications were listed in the application evaluation page. The implementation listed the 5 most recent applications, with links if the viewer was the coordinator for that publisher too. This is a good first step, but needs some further refinement. Coordinators are only interested in _recent_ applications, so we can limit those 5 applications to those filed in the recent past, and showing the date is helpful context.

We want to:

• Only list applications filed in the last 3 months.
• Show the submission date for each application

This will help coordinators make informed decisions.

To do this, update the recent applications filter (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/applications/views.py#L965) so that it only includes objects with date_created more recent than 90 days with date_created__gte=datetime.today() - timedelta(days=90) where datetime and timedelta are imported from datetime.

Then, in the template where we list applications (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/applications/templates/applications/application_evaluation.html#L224), add a new column displaying the submission date (app.date_created).

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