From IRC today (UTC times)
15:38 <anomie> Trizek: Another notification bug: On wikimediafoundation.org it's showing me (User:BJorsch) 4 alerts and 6 messages. But the dropdowns, and going to Special:Notifications, say "You have no notifications". Force-reloading doesn't change this situation.
16:01 <Trizek> Is that happen before, anomie?
16:08 <anomie> Trizek: Nope, just started today. I had strangely high numbers of notifications reported on officewiki too (lots of alerts and messages reported, even though there was actually only 1 new message), but that correctly went back to 0 after opening the dropdowns.
Description
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| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Trizek-WMF | T135239 Cross-wiki notifications post-release high-priority issues (tracking) | ||
| Resolved | • Mattflaschen-WMF | T135246 Wrong notification counts being shown due to cache pollution coming from non-SUL wikis |
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This seems to be a fishbowl wiki issue, where the counter returns local + crosswiki notifications, but the wiki itself doesn't have access to get the cross-wiki and so it doesn't actually show the bundle, making the view and counter different.
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Private and fishbowl are not on CentralAuth, so there are no cross-wiki notifications. Like @Catrope said, it is probably just returning the wrong data due to user ID collisions with actual CentralAuth users.
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Change 288651 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mattflaschen):
Disable cross-wiki notif. (both Beta and separate pref.) on non-SUL
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Change 288654 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mattflaschen):
Bump cache version for cache pollution (cross-wiki on non-SUL wikis)
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Change 288651 merged by jenkins-bot:
Disable cross-wiki notif. (both Beta and separate pref.) on non-SUL
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Follow up (not urgent since other two will fix prod: T135266: Gate cross-wiki preferences entirely (default off)).
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Change 288654 merged by jenkins-bot:
Bump cache version for cache pollution (cross-wiki on non-SUL wikis)
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Change 288710 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope):
Bump cache version for cache pollution (cross-wiki on non-SUL wikis)
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The cache pollution (i.e. wrong notification counts) should be fixed now, and cross-wiki notifications should now be fully disabled on wikis that don't have CentralAuth. Let us know if you still see issues.
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Change 288710 merged by jenkins-bot:
Bump cache version for cache pollution (cross-wiki on non-SUL wikis)
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@Catrope and @Mattflaschen, please review the attached screen recording. 'X' button has a different behavior there vs enwiki. Not sure if the issue described below is related to the problem fixed in that ticket.
Checking before the fix
@Catrope and @Mattflaschen, please review the attached screen recording. 'X' button has a different behavior there vs enwiki. Not sure if the issue described below is related to the problem fixed in that ticket.
Re-checking after the fix - there are still some problems with updating the counter - not observed in enwiki or testwiki, but it's present in Hindi wiki.
Do we have 'mark as unread' state for a bundle?
- Without opening the bundle - click on the the 'X' icon to mark as read all bundled notifications.
- The bundle will be greyed out and have an option 'mark as unread'
- Click on 'mark as unread' - the bundle is unread.
All those actions mess up the counter - watch the counter goes from 10 to 5, flickering 0, back to 5.
The final count will be incorrect 5 - and no hard-refresh or navigating away will change that count.
Or, as in the case with Arabic wikipedia
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I think the comment above is attached to the wrong task. (This task is about notification counts at the private/fishbowl wikis, e.g. wmfwiki and officewiki).
I'm not sure which is the correct task to copy it to. Possibly T124948: Unread notification count is wrong when presentationModel::canRender() returns false? Or does it need a new task?
See also the related T135292: Expandable cross-wiki bundle notification count does not get updated after some messages were marked as read.