Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:38:41 UTC
Since upgrading to 1.5.0 (and still now at 1.5.1) a user has experienced the "You have new messages" notification at all times, even though he has visited his talk page, and it has not been edited. On a separate wiki I have experienced the same problem, creating a new user account and editing my own talk page: I get "You have new messages" on every page except the talk page itself; even upon updating / editing the talk page, it doesn't go away.
Is this a caching problem? Try a refresh or a hard-refresh from within your browser. Also, check the talk page history to make sure it *hasn't* been edited.
This is an odd behavior that was present in 1.5rcX (and/or 1.5betaX) too. There is a page on meta describing how to get rid of this, but in my case I've tried everything, except messing with DB. Some other users have reported the same thing.
Yes, it's no caching problem (at least, no browser-caching problem) as it still shows up even visiting new pages, and the talk page hasn't been edited. Filip: Could you link to that meta page? I'm not finding it.
Muke: I can't seem to find it either. Maybe it wasn't meta. Possibly another bug...
I have had this problem on 1.5b4 and 1.5.1. In our case it happens every time a user talk page is modified. The only way we can clear the "you have new messages" notification is to watch-cycle the talk page. As other people have reported, the "you have new messages" notification appears after the talk page has been visited even on new pages that I haven't visited before, so it's clearly not a browser caching issue. (And hard-refreshing the browser doesn't help.) MediaWiki: 1.5.1 PHP: 4.3.8 (apache2handler) MySQL: 4.0.20a-debug
The revisited Enotif patch http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2014 and also the current version of EnotifWiki based on MediaWiki1.5rc4 see http://developer.berlios.de/projects/enotifwiki/ and http://www.enotifwiki.org do not show this problem. Unfortunately, currently I cannot supply a "diff" patch for MW 1.5.1
I can confirm that this bug persists in MediaWiki: 1.5.2 PHP: 4.3.2 (apache2filter) MySQL: 3.23.58 Redhat Linux
We have noticed at the HRWiki that the bug seems to affect only those usernames that contain spaces on them.
(In reply to comment #8) > ... seems to affect only those usernames that contain spaces on them. This is the case refered in Bug 4031: not able to clear "You have new messages" when making a redirect from your talk page to another talk page best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
*** Bug 4031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #8) > We have noticed at the HRWiki Details for our setup: * MediaWiki: 1.5.2 * PHP: 4.3.11 (apache) * MySQL: 4.0.25-standard * Linux 2.4.21-4.ELsmp
We are using "Firstname Lastname" for our usernames, so they all contain the space character. WikiSysop is the only user on our system without a space in their name. When I logged in as WikiSysop and viewed its talk page the banner message was cleared. So I can confirm that on our installation having a space in the username appears to be a precondition for the bug to occur. I have tried again unsuccessfully to reproduce the bug at Wikipedia. Discussion on Mediawiki-l suggested that the special caching software used at Wikimedia sites might hide the bug. My setup is described above, running on Windows XP Professional.
I have tried ticking the "Disable page caching" option under user preferences, but this doesn't fix the problem.
(In reply to comment #12) > I have tried again unsuccessfully to reproduce the bug at Wikipedia. > Discussion on Mediawiki-l suggested that the special caching software used > at Wikimedia sites might hide the bug. Unless the bug or whatever is fixed in 1.6-dev, in which case it won't affect Wikipedia, nor any other Wikimedia web site, since we live on the edge with those. ;-)
(In reply to comment #0) > user has experienced the "You have new messages" > notification at all times, even though he has > visited his talk page, and it has not been edited.... > updating / editing the talk page, it doesn't go > away. Perhaps you can contact the user and ask to click once onto the "Mark all pages visited" link on their watchlist (to see if the problem is then solved). Already some week ago, I recommended also to apply my patch as mentioned in comment 6 to this bugzilla http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3805#c6 .
(In reply to comment #14) > (In reply to comment #12) > > I have tried again unsuccessfully to reproduce the bug at Wikipedia. Rob please tray to reproduce the bug at http://test.leuksman.com/ creating a new account containing spaces. Please let us know the results. Thanks in advance!
Ups wrong link! (In reply to comment #14) > > I have tried again unsuccessfully to reproduce the bug at Wikipedia. Rob please tray to reproduce the bug at http://test.leuksman.com/view/Main_Page creating a new account containing spaces. Please let us know the results. Thanks in advance!
changing to WORKSFORME I tested this extensivly with various usernames ( see http://test.leuksman.com/view/Category:Bugzilla/BiDi )containing a space at http://test.leuksman.com/ . The problem disapeared. Thanks Brion!
(In reply to comment #18) > changing to WORKSFORME > I tested this extensivly with various usernames ( see > http://test.leuksman.com/view/Category:Bugzilla/BiDi )containing a space at > http://test.leuksman.com/ . > > The problem disapeared. Thanks Brion! But this bug relates to behavior in version 1.5. http://test.leuksman.com runs version 1.6devel. I might be wrong in doing this, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm removing the WORKSFORME tag and reopening, as it does not work on version 1.5.
I agree it appears to be fixed at leuksman.com. What version is that site at? Can we assume it will also be fixed in the next stable release? Maybe it's already fixed in 1.5.3. Has anyone upgraded to 1.5.3 and checked this defect? Sorry about the barrage of questions!
The bug persists in 1.5.3. Our configuration: MediaWiki: 1.5.3 PHP: 4.3.11 (apache) MySQL: 4.0.25-standard
This is a bug in the old enotif code, which has since been replaced on the development branch.
Created attachment 1167 [details] Quick fix for REL1_5 Fixed bad comparison in UserTalkUpdate.php
I applied the above patch, and it resolved the problem at our wiki. Thanks, Brion!
Must have forgot to mark this FIXED.
Thanks heaps for the patch Brion, it works perfectly for me too.
I can confirm that this is in 1.5.4. Thanks!
