I think this is related to the new messages not being marked as read when we click on them. When I try to use AutoWikiBrowser, I get a “You have new messages”. There is no way for me to load AutoWikiBrowser with this.
I tested AWB on Wikipedia to verify that there is no bug with AutoWikiBrowser and it seems to be a problem with the wikiHow site. I think it is related to the fact that mobilefrontend is still being used and messages are not being marked as read on mobile for some weird reason.
The reason why I am filing this as a bug is because I was going to use AutoWikiBrowser to tag 36+ articles about Adobe Flash as historical. But I can’t when I cannot mark all my new messages as read. Out of curiosity, why can’t we just have the “mark all as read” button as on Wikipedia? And why can’t we just have the UI look similar to this, but green?
At least it would allow me to mark my notifications as read so they stop showing up in the notification toolbar.
Apparently, using the ?useformat=desktop trick fixes the issue. Why can’t the responsive design just be made available as a desktop skinrather than forcing desktop users to cope with mobile? Okay, I have a guess now. Maybe because not all the tools on desktop have been rewritten for the design, and vice versa. But that is a wild guess. I don’t know.
Well I had the “1” button on my talk page even if I see and respond to it. But when I go to “edit” or the community dashboard, then 1 comes down, and then when I click on it it goes. But just for once. I thought it was just something wrong with my account.
well that seems kinda good. I don’t have a wikiPedia account, but this looks good.
Visiting Special:Notifications
is how you can “mark all as read”. I personally like the system now where the notifications clear when you view the tab, assuming that it works right, but I don’t want to have to manually mark them as read.
I think I figured out the issue, and it seems to be related to mobile only.
The MW software will push that you have new messages (and highlight the User talk link) if the user has not visited their talk page. Since it seems to be an issue with MobileFrontEnd (or how it is used on this wiki), I can safely say that this bug report can be closed as invalid for now. Thanks for your input anyway!
Eric
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@Awesome_Aasim
, keep in mind that the engineering team has never provided support for third-party editing tools such as AWB. Making engineering changes to support third-party tools like this seems pretty unlikely and unnecessary.
@Eric
please close this. I realize this now.
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