I just realized - .get() will retrieve the page using the API by default. This probably does not trigger the 'read' status. Could you try using touch.py or temporarily setting the api config setting to 'off'?

Merlijn

On 26 February 2011 17:56, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:

Yes, I logged in at the beginning when I had to set my e-mail address. Today I loaded an HTML page by bot several times, and the "orange bar" could be seen in the source.

2011/2/26 Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl

Have you tried logging in to wikipedia:hu by hand? Do you get the orange

...

'You have new messages' bar?

-- Bináris