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Null edits to user talk pages trigger newtalk flag
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Author: Orgullomoore

Description:
I don't know how many people realize this, and I don't know how risky it is to
file it as a bug, but purging the caché (or editing it without making any
changes) of a user talk page will fire a message alert. If a troll were to get
ahold of this and write a script, it would be rather annoying and we would never
know who it was (without access to the server log, anyway). A message alert
should only be triggered if there is actually a change in the text of the page.


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Severity: normal

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:16 PM
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robchur wrote:

Unable to reproduce with a regular action=purge, but the null edit thing *does*
trigger the new talk flag.

robchur wrote:

...and should now be corrected in SVN trunk, r14996.