Hello,
I was subscribed by DiscussionTools to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Permissions#Requests, probably based on my reply via the reply tool.
SRP is a high-frequency noticeboard used by the Wikimedia Stewards. Unlike many other pages, the actual threads use h4 (ie. ==== Headline ====), rather than h2 (==) like normal talk pages. I don't want to be subscribed to it via DT, since it would trigger a lot of notifications. Watchlist is preferred for me to keep track about SRP matters, and to reply to new requests.
Unfortunately, DiscussionTools does not let me to manually unsubscribe: the button "unsubscribe" is there, but clicking it shows "Could not unsubscribe from this topic". See screenshot:
This is the API call that is triggered when I hit the "unsubscribe" button:
and here is the reply:
{ "error": { "code": "subscription-failed", "info": "Could not unsubscribe from this topic.", "docref": "See https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-api-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes." }, "servedby": "mw1379" }
Even though the unsubscribe button shows up (and notifications are flowing in), I don't see any record about me being subscribed in the discussiontools_subscription table:
wikiadmin@10.64.0.97(metawiki)> select * from discussiontools_subscription where sub_namespace=0 and sub_title='Steward_requests/Permissions' and sub_user=(select user_id from user where user_name='Martin Urbanec'); +--------+------------------------------+---------------+------------------------------+-------------+-----------+----------+----------------+----------------+ | sub_id | sub_item | sub_namespace | sub_title | sub_section | sub_state | sub_user | sub_created | sub_notified | +--------+------------------------------+---------------+------------------------------+-------------+-----------+----------+----------------+----------------+ | 1531 | h-HitomiAkane-20220813165800 | 0 | Steward_requests/Permissions | Requests | 2 | 7034294 | 20220911085228 | 20220917114915 | +--------+------------------------------+---------------+------------------------------+-------------+-----------+----------+----------------+----------------+ 1 row in set (0.001 sec) wikiadmin@10.64.0.97(metawiki)>
Personally, I think DiscussionTools should not autosubscribe on SRP at all, or alternatively, it should subscribe users to the h4-marked thread, not to the whole page, to avoid notification spam. It might be useful for me to quickly learn about replies to requests I responded to, but I don't want to be notified about all SRP request changes, even requests where I did not contribute in any way. In any way, it should let me to unsubscribe if I want to.
