Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1280533-20130122223155/@comment-16101931-20140523050444

Lunarity wrote: 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).

Thank you for that. I was getting a headache trying to figure out how to mark Message Wall posts as patrolled, as they don't show up as regular diffs, or like normal pages would in Recent Changes, so it's impossible for the normal auto-patrol thing to work. I had to use that second method, going into Special:NewPages and clicking the links to get the right diff page that would show the "Mark as patrolled" button.

Thank you again!