Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:37:58 UTC
In MediaWiki 1.5beta3 the "You have new messages" box does not appear for anonymous users any more. When I'm logged in I do get message notifications, but for "User talk:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" (i.e. IP addresses), there is no message notification. This used to work with 1.4. I tested this in HuWiki and EnWiki.
I confirm this bug in the current (CVS) version of beta3 and - unfortunately also in my EnotifWiki version. I'll have a look into that problem in the next hours.
22:15:54 < Hashar> grin> about 70% of wikipedia traffic is from anonymous users, we cache pages generated for them with Squid-cache 22:16:09 < Hashar> grin> so we dont want to invalidate a page for all anonymous users when one anon receive a message :p
I raised priority to high, because this is (in my opinion) a quite vital feature of MediaWiki - in the Wikipedia context. If someone is of another opinion, pls. can he or she silently decrease the Priority ? thanks.
(In reply to comment #2) > 22:15:54 < Hashar> grin> about 70% of wikipedia traffic is from anonymous users, > we cache pages > generated for them with Squid-cache > 22:16:09 < Hashar> grin> so we dont want to invalidate a page for all anonymous > users when one anon > receive a message :p > Hashar; please can you elaborate on that ? The feature should work, but it does not.
Talked a bit about it with tom. It's indeed a bug, most probably in Article::editUpdates() a case is not handled when a user:: object is created with an ip address string.
Article.php rev.1.355 lines 2023..2034: perhaps, because User:newFromName($shortTitle) does return 'null' (because anon isn't a validUser in newFromName() ? I am not sure. This is, why I ask kindly: Can someone of the core team pls. fix this ?
Fixed, now creates IP users manually and it works.
Brion, I confirm, that your patch in Article.php $other = new User(); $other->setName($shortTitle); fixed that problem. Thanks
