Articles with no Wikidata description show an erroneous description upon refreshing / going back.
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Here are the steps to reproduce:

Go to an article without a description.
Click on a link to an article that has a description.
Press Back immediately as the new article starts loading. (Specifically, press Back while the new page title is animating upward before fading in the description)
The previous article will now incorrectly show the description from the new article. (Expected behavior would be to show no desctiption)

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Fix erroneous description in articles without a description.	apps/android/wikipedia	master	+43 -25

Mentioned In: T103788: Android Production Release 2.0.105
rAPAW727f014ce5f2: Fix erroneous description in articles without a description.

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@Dbrant can you add some article examples to the report steps

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Change 219199 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dbrant):
Fix erroneous description in articles without a description.

Design Signoff not needed, QA Signoff suffices.

Change 219199 merged by jenkins-bot:
Fix erroneous description in articles without a description.

Checked with 2.0.103-alpha-2015-06-19 on Samsung Tablet Ce0168(Android 4.0.4)

Tested it with
wikipedia-alpha-debug.apk (2015-06-19) on on Samsung Tablet Ce0168(Android 4.0.4).

Checked with '2010–11 SV Werder Bremen season' article - does not have wikidata descritpion (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4619860).

Dbrant closed this task as Resolved.Jun 23 2015, 2:24 AM