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 <benap...@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 <pleasest...@live.com> wrote: >> On 04/21/2014 07:49 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:40:16 +0200, Petr Bena <benap...@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@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
