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How do I delete notifications? Anamyd (talk) 03:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Notifications cannot be deleted. Wikipedia likes to permanently log every action and rarely outright deletes stuff. (Compare how older overwritten article edits can still be accessed through page history, and how Wikipedia keeps a permanent track of every contribution you've made). You can mark notifications as read, however, and ignore them after that. CapnZapp (talk) 11:13, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if this is the right place to bring this up, but I triggered an unwanted ping with this edit. I was adjusting the formatting of an AfD discussion per MOS:INDENTMIX, and it resulted in an unintentional ping being sent to PARAKANYAA. Not sure if there's an easy workaround for this behavior, just thought I'd mention in case it doesn't fall within the scope of a documented bug. Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 22:37, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you made a new signed post, whichh is half the story. But in your reformatting, the MediaWiki parser presumably saw it as the removal of a blank line, a paragraph, and another blank line; and the addition of an entirely new paragraph in place of the first blank line. That "new" paragraph contains the link to User:PARAKANYAA (in their sig). It's possible that the bullet at WP:MENTION that reads Not alter any text outside your own comment is no longer applicable. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In the lead, we have a long list of examples with "You can "mention" a user called Example by making an..." but we don't mention how to do it in the modern, code-light VE talk page style, i.e by clocking the person+ button. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:46, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone have (with a source!) a date for when Echo was rolled out and possible the dates for when various features were added? It can help to know this when looking back... Carcharoth (talk) 12:25, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Found it: March 2013: Echo: A new notification system for Wikipedia - 7 February 2013 by Fabrice Florin. Carcharoth (talk) 12:31, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Carcharoth: For English Wikipedia specifically, it was 30 April 2013. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:05, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a way to change the color of the alert badge from red to something else? Some1 (talk) 01:44, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]