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Got following notification:

"""
Pages you started were cross referenced on MediaWiki

Development policy/da, Coding conventions/da, Security for developers/da, Manual:Pre-commit checklist/da were linked by MediaWiki user Ribe, from this page: Developer hub/da

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub/da
"""

I, to my knowledge has never visited, watched, created, or imagined any of the pages given. Thus I must assume the notification system is going mad!


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Severity: normal

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bz43625

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:19 AM
bzimport added a project: Notifications.
bzimport set Reference to bz43625.

What's your MediaWiki username, Carl?

I wonder if it's a issue regarding subpages. Did you creating any of the parents for any of those pages?

It's also possible we're just grabbing the wrong page_ids for some reason. Are there any links on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub/da that are to pages you created?

(In reply to comment #4)

It's also possible we're just grabbing the wrong page_ids for some reason.
Are
there any links on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub/da that are
to
pages you created?

I cannot find any pages linked from that page which I've created.

It happened again now:

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A page you started was cross referenced on MediaWiki

User talk:IXavier was linked by MediaWiki user IXavier, from this page: MediaWiki talk:Newarticletext

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Newarticletext
"""

And many more now:

"""
Länk was linked by MediaWiki user Taidokas, from this page: User:Taidokas

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Taidokas
"""

"""
Thread:Talk:MediaWiki/MediaWiki 1.18 on Oracle was linked by MediaWiki user Shizhao, from this page: Thread:Talk:MediaWiki/MediaWiki 1.18 on Oracle (2)

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:MediaWiki/MediaWiki_1.18_on_Oracle_(2)
"""

"""
User talk:Romina.valentini was linked by MediaWiki user Romina.valentini, from this page: User:Romina.valentini

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Romina.valentini
"""

"""
User talk:Robkam was linked by MediaWiki user Robkam, from this page: Extension talk:MediawikiPlayer

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MediawikiPlayer
"""

If this is annoying you, you can go to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo and disable it (untick "Creates a link to an article I created")

(In reply to comment #8)

If this is annoying you, you can go to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo and
disable it (untick "Creates a link to an article I created")

True, but I need to stand stong and await it to be fixed instead of going the easy way out.

Latest one:

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Thread:User talk:^demon/Re: Moved extensions from SVN - Git was linked by MediaWiki user Krenair, from this page: Thread:User talk:Kipmaster/Re: Moved extensions from SVN - Git

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:User_talk:Kipmaster/Re:_Moved_extensions_from_SVN_-_Git
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Just for reference; Here are the latest ones:

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Developers/da, Bugs/da, How to debug/da, Selenium Framework/da, Unit testing/da, Security/da, Localisation/da, Manual/da, MVL/da, API/da, Extensions FAQ/da, Extension Matrix/da, Enterprise hub/da, Academic hub/da, Project:WikiProject Extensions/da, Category:Extensions/da, Manual:Errors and Symptoms/da, Manual:Code/da, Manual:Database layout/da, Manual:Global object variables/da, Manual:Database access/da, Manual:Messages API/da, Manual:ContentHandler/da, Manual:Hooks/da, Manual:Developing extensionsda, Manual:$wgExtensionFunctions/da, Manual:Setup.php/da, Manual:Skinning/da, Manual:Skin configuration/da were linked by MediaWiki user Ribe, from this page: Developer hub/da

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub/da
"""

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User:Arcarlucci, User talk:Arcarlucci were linked by MediaWiki user Arcarlucci, from this page: Extension talk:Semantic Forms

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Semantic_Forms
"""

bsitu wrote:

Thanks for providing the information, we will track down the cause of this bug

bsitu wrote:

Hi Carl,

Sorry about all the spams to your email! We have found out the cause of this bug. I am applying a patch now.

@Carl: It looks like your account was associated with an "orphan" revision in the database, i.e. a revision assigned to article id 0 (See bug 16674). This was the reason you were getting all the random notices. Thanks for the help troubleshooting the bug and sorry for the spam.

Resolved on Gerrit change 42290 that has been merged, although not deployed yet

I'm still getting erroneous messages from mediawiki.org, and assume I'm not totally wrong, the change has been deployed to mediawiki.org at this time.

"""
Thread:Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013 - DevRoom - Qgil/We have a second customer! :) was linked by MediaWiki user Qgil, from this page: Thread:Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013 - DevRoom - Qgil/We have a second customer! :) (2)

View more:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_DevRoom_-_Qgil/We_have_a_second_customer!_:)_(2)
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bsitu wrote:

The change was just deployed, the notification might come from old code