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English doesn't appear as a target gray interlanguage link in simple.wikipedia.org, but Simple English does
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Description

English doesn't appear as a target gray interlanguage link in simple.wikipedia.org, but Simple English does.

To reproduce:

Observed: "Simple English" appears a gray interlanguage link.

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Arrbee lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Jul 21 2015, 5:10 PM
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Usual language code mismatch issues, like T100002 and friends?

Arrbee raised the priority of this task from Medium to Needs Triage.Oct 29 2018, 1:36 PM
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This still happens. I updated the description with detailed instructions to reproduce.

Nikerabbit triaged this task as Medium priority.May 22 2025, 2:35 PM
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I don't understand the connection between the last step in the description and all the other steps before. Do we need to publish a translation and then view it to experience the issue?

If I only go with the last step, viewing an article on simple that doesn't have lang links, then I don't see the faulty simple english lang link that the task is about.

It probably depends on the logic in the entry point on how it chooses the languages to display and then trigger those conditions.

It probably depends on the logic in the entry point on how it chooses the languages to display and then trigger those conditions.

As @SBisson, I didn't see how the steps in the task description are supposed to lead to the issue, but when I tried to reach Special:CX page from any article listed on https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WithoutInterwiki, I am getting

Uncaught (in promise) Error: No page metadata found for title 1924 Brussels Femina Club international women's athletics meeting and language pair de-ru

Steps:
HAPPY path

The lang pair is pre-set.

The steps to reproduce the issue:

  • after the previous steps, go back to Special:WithoutInterwiki and click on the same article as before - '1921–22 Austrian Cup'
  • a user will be redirected to

https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ContentTranslation&from=simple&to=ru&campaign=ulsaddlanguages&page=1921%E2%80%9322%20Austrian%20Cup&filter-type=automatic&filter-id=previous-edits#/sx

  • and on that page a user cannot change the pre-set lang pair
    • the target lang fails with
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getTitleForLanguage')
  • and the source lang cannot be changed at all

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