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Bug 21424 - "New message" triggered by wiki duplication

Summary:	"New message" triggered by wiki duplication

Status: RESOLVED INVALID Product: MediaWiki Classification: Unclassified Component: Interface (Other open bugs) Version: unspecified Hardware: PC Windows XP Importance: Normal minor (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: Depends on: Blocks:   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2009-11-07 01:41 UTC by rwoodworth Modified: 2009-11-07 21:59 UTC (History) CC List: 2 users (show) roan.kattouw rwoodworth See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description rwoodworth 2009-11-07 01:41:24 UTC My "you have new messages" bar showed up today, because help.wikia.com was copied to sarahtestwiki.wikia.com. User:Wikia had welcomed me to help.wikia.com in May 2009, so MediaWiki thought the new page was a new message, even though it isn't. Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2009-11-07 21:34:42 UTC Copying wikis is not part of the MediaWiki software. It must be something Wikia wrote, so it's their code that's broken. It probably copied over the user_newtalk table as well, while it shouldn't. Comment 2 rwoodworth 2009-11-07 21:59:31 UTC OK, thanks for the prompt reply. I'll post to the Wikia listserv or something.