User blog comment:Trellar/A new way to promote your wiki/@comment-3976024-20120830110511/@comment-188432-20120830142049

Yah, I submitted a report on this. I think this is not one of those features that "work but don't appear to", because there are MW messages which suggest some sort of response should be met by pressing publish. Like there's MediaWiki:Promote-image-in-review, which should, you'd think, pop up somewhere after you press Publish.

Also, if a publish had been successful — even though it didn't appear to be working — the next time you returned to Special:Promote, you'd think you'd see the submissions you made. Instead, it just all returns to the default condition, with no sign that anyone has changed anything.

The other thing is that it seems unlikely that Wikia would be able to supress the activity monitor that you get in any browser when you click on a link to go somehwere. When I click on a link, I see all the "stops" my signal makes along the way to the Wikia servers. When I press Publish, there's no activity at all.