Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1280533-20130122223155/@comment-5209426-20130124084522

I noticed this a few months back. It apparently isn't a [Wikia] bug, it's a badly implemented feature of the MediaWiki core.

The feature is called "New Page Patrol" (feature switch) and the UI is very poorly designed. To use it, you must either: If you did this right, there should be a  in your URL bar. On the 'old revision preview' page that comes up, scroll to the bottom and find the "mark this page as patrolled" link. Click that to patrol it.
 * 1) Click the page name directly next to the red exclamation, do not click any other link.
 * 2) Go to Special:NewPages and click on the page name (not the timestamp or "hist" or anything else).

If you just want to get rid of the exclamation marks then you can add this CSS to the wiki: This will render the exclamation marks invisible.