Visiting the target page for any echo notification via site or email, should mark that notification as "read"
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	• Quiddity
	Nov 27 2013, 8:52 PM

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If I get any type of notification email, and click on the link to go to the relevant page, that should mark the onwiki Notification as "read" and decrease the red-badge number.

Eg. Alice reverts my edit at article [Foo]. I receive an email. I click the link and see the diff. The Notification for that revert is automagically marked as "read".

Eg.2. Bob Mentions me in a talkpage discussion. I receive an email. I click the link and visit the thread. The Notification for that Mention is automagically marked as "read".

This is how it currently works for usertalkpage messages (yay!). We'd love for that functionality to be expanded.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz57684

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:26 AM

• bzimport added a project: Notifications.

• bzimport set Reference to bz57684.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• Quiddity created this task.Nov 27 2013, 8:52 PM

(Sidenote: This was initially discussed by Risker and I at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications#Getting_the_little_number_to_change_without_clicking_the_red_box )

(Sidenote: If there are complications, and it has to be done separately for each type ([[mw:Echo (Notifications)/Developer guide#Notification categories]]) it might be particularly relevant for whichever Notifications are highest frequency. (perhaps by looking at http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_echo_views_by_category etc?))

(In reply to comment #1)

(Sidenote: This was initially discussed by Risker and I at

archived link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications/Archive_5#Getting_the_little_number_to_change_without_clicking_the_red_box

Bug 62968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Apparently, there is something going on on Meta that is preventing the notification from being marked as read despite me clicking on the notification. Screenshot: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notifications_failing_to_mark_as_read_on_Meta.png

• Mattflaschen-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Dec 9 2014, 10:30 PM

• Mattflaschen-WMF added a project: Collaboration-Team-Triage.

• Mattflaschen-WMF set Security to None.

• werdna unsubscribed.Dec 10 2014, 5:14 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Notifications_counter_stuck reports this same issue on enwp.

Apparently there was a report of this on enwp before as well, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2014_November_21#My_notifications_are_stuck

Legoktm moved this task from Backlog to Needs plan on the Notifications board.Jul 6 2015, 8:43 AM