Topic on Project:Village Pump

Summary by Trizek (WMF)

Solved.

Gestumblindi (talkcontribs)

I'm having a hard time with the "Notices" icon which stubbornly tells me that I have 3 new notices here on MediaWiki.org, so this gets displayed in other Wikimedia projects, too. The notices come from Talk:Reading/Web/Projects/Related pages where apparently some spam posts were deleted, but it seems that now I have no way to mark them as really read. Special:Notifications says that I have no unread notifications, still there's a "3" appearing on the notifications icon. Any advice on getting rid of these? I've tried taking the page from my watchlist, but the existing notifications are still displayed.

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)

We have made some fixes to prevent notifications from deleted topics, but my may have been trapped in the glitch. I'm sorry about that, let's try to fix it!

Have you tried to bypass your cache?

If it is not working, that would mean it is a bug.

Gestumblindi (talkcontribs)

@Trizek (WMF): "Have you tried to ?" - tried to do... well, what? ;-) It seems it's fixed itself, maybe through the new notification your response here generated? - instead of the "3", there was now an "1" and after having read your response, it's gone. So, fixed for me, at least for now, but maybe there's still an issue that needs fixing...?

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Apparently not. I keep you r feedback in mind, and if I have an other one, I'll report it.

Happy to see this is fixed! :)

Gestumblindi (talkcontribs)

Not really fixed, it seems; I have now another of these "stubborn" notices, now for a deleted new topic on this page (Project:Current issues)...

Gestumblindi (talkcontribs)

It lasted for days, but today, this notice is gone, too. But I wouldn't be surprised if this happens again when a topic on a watched page is deleted...