Topic on Talk:Edit Review Improvements/New filters for edit review

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I have had problems with the highlight of unseen changes (blue dot and bold font in watchlist) since the new watchlist was introduced, and it is getting worse recently. There are two kinds of problems:

- Articles would still show as unseen even though I already opened it, or even edited it.

- If there are new edits to a page I have seen earlier, all the previous edits (of the previous days, for example) become "unseen".

There is a bug on that feature. It has been detailed on the last issue of Tech News:

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [1]

I am still experiencing this problem. The tool was working mostly fine for the last couple of months until today.

Do you still exactly have the issues you've described before?

Hi, sorry for late reply. Yes, I still have the exact same issues. They appear less often, but they are still there.

Can you please check the following? (copied from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Locating_broken_scripts)

Be sure you have an up-to-date configuration

1. First, ensure your browser is up to date. MediaWiki features and some scripts are not supported by old browsers for safety reasons.
2. Then, purge the cache for the page to force the page to be redisplayed from its source or scripts to restart.

Those two points solve most issues.

If you have a tool like "NoScript" or ad blockers installed on your web browser, then make certain that scripts are enabled for wikipedia.org, wikimedia.org, mediawiki.org, and wikidata.org.

Test if you have problems related to user scripts or gadgets

To test if your problem is linked to user scripts or gadgets, you can try to temporarily deactivate all on-wiki scripts at once.

To do so, add ?safemode=1 to the web address (URL) of the page on which you see the problem. Example: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist?safemode=1

If the URL already includes a ?, append &safemode=1 instead. Example: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Watchlist&safemode=1

If you still have problems on the page you are testing with the safe mode, and your browser is up to date, please report here.

If you don't have the problem anymore using the safe mode, it means you have an issue with a user script or gadget. You have then to identify the problem.

Hi, fortunately the problem is quite rare, so I cannot easily reproduce it. In any case, I use an up to date version of Google Chrome and I already purged the cache. I did not see this problem again since last week.