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Wikipedia article links in gallery item descriptions sometimes have a language prefix, sometimes a 'w' prefix, sometimes none
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The prefixes should probably be invisible to the user in all cases.

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• Mholloway created this task.Jan 23 2017, 3:54 PM
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• Mholloway renamed this task from Wikipedia article links in gallery item descriptions sometimes have language prefixes, sometimes a 'w' prefix, sometimes none to Wikipedia article links in gallery item descriptions sometimes have a language prefix, sometimes a 'w' prefix, sometimes none.Jan 23 2017, 4:04 PM
• Mholloway mentioned this in T156018: Show visual indicator when gallery item descriptions contain external links.
Dbrant moved this task from Needs Triage to Product Backlog on the Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog board.Feb 22 2017, 5:56 PM
• Mholloway closed this task as Declined.Nov 10 2017, 10:55 PM

These are cases of interwiki link prefixes being included in link display text, presumably because the image description author did not provide separate display text that excludes the prefix. The issue is also present on-wiki and should be fixed there.

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