Thread:User talk:Wikinaut/AJAXPoll patch/reply

Hi George, thanks for your patch, but your patch is not needed, You can simply set the MediaWiki:ajaxpoll-tracking-category text string to "-" (minus). This is not so well known, and I will have to add some documentation on MediaWiki, and perhaps also in the extension itself.

Why exactly is your patch obsolete? See the core code in https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/Parser_8php_source.html#l04167 seq.:

04168        if ( $cat === '-' ) { 04169            return false; 04170        }
 * 1) Allow tracking categories to be disabled by setting them to "-"