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Removals/reverts cause series of identical "linked from" notifications
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Repeated reverts of vandalism like on this page:

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki/tr&action=history

cause a link notification to be sent every time the old text is re-instated. We should either ignore repeated addition of the same link from the same page, or detect the revert as such.


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 1:21 AM
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Created attachment 11837
Example of identical notifications for the same link being added

Attached:

dupenotification.png (681×487 px, 48 KB)

The best way I can think of to solve this would be, at the point at which a link is created, look at all the article-link notifications within the recent past (perhaps 7 days) and if there is already a notification corresponding to the same pages, don't create a new notification.

bsitu wrote:

To address the problem, I implemented an interim quick fix in here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54589/. I think Kaldari's idea is much more flexible, I added a todo note in the code comment.