On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:40:16 +0200, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote: Use the action=setnotificationtimestamp API to mark your own talk page as 'visited'. -- Matma Rex _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

nvm I found On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Cool thanks, Is there documentation for it? > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:40:16 +0200, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Using api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights|hasmsg I get >>> information about new message. >>> >>> Now I can read it using api, but that doesn't flag the talk page as >>> read. What do I need to do in order to flag it as read other than >>> running external browser instead of api? >> >> >> Use the action=setnotificationtimestamp API to mark your own talk page as >> 'visited'. >> >> >> -- >> Matma Rex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On 04/21/2014 07:49 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: I looked at this a while ago and found that this won't get rid of the orange bar (or its equivalent in the API). And this still seems to be true. The relevant method is User::clearNotification() (which in turn calls User::setNewtalk()). That API module doesn't call it, instead updating the watchlist table directly to allow batching. So the user_newtalk row (or for anons, the object cache entry) is not deleted or updated. -- Kevin Israel - MediaWiki developer, Wikipedia editor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PleaseStand _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

The api doesn't work, I made it successfuly update it, but it still show new messages On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Does it mean it's not possible to do this using api? > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Kevin Israel <pleasestand(a)live.com> wrote: >> On 04/21/2014 07:49 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:40:16 +0200, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Using api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights|hasmsg I get >>>> information about new message. >>>> >>>> Now I can read it using api, but that doesn't flag the talk page as >>>> read. What do I need to do in order to flag it as read other than >>>> running external browser instead of api? >>> >>> Use the action=setnotificationtimestamp API to mark your own talk page >>> as 'visited'. >> >> I looked at this a while ago and found that this won't get rid of the >> orange bar (or its equivalent in the API). And this still seems to be true. >> >> The relevant method is User::clearNotification() (which in turn calls >> User::setNewtalk()). That API module doesn't call it, instead updating >> the watchlist table directly to allow batching. >> >> So the user_newtalk row (or for anons, the object cache entry) is not >> deleted or updated. >> >> -- >> Kevin Israel - MediaWiki developer, Wikipedia editor >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PleaseStand >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l