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[BUG] Unable to get updated Wikidata description in Traditional Chinese articles after submitting it
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Description

Regarding to T173842#3603966 , the Traditional Chinese users won't get the updated description after submitting it.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Change app language to Traditional Chinese, and refresh the Feed page
  2. Read an article, and edit title description
  3. Submit the description and then refresh the page.

Expected

See the updated description

Actual

The updated description does not display in the article, but it actually has been added into the wikidata description which is inside the "Traditional Chinese" section.

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Change 382086 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cooltey; owner: Cooltey):
[apps/android/wikipedia@master] Fix: Unable to submit Wikidata description in Traditional Chinese articles

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/382086

Actually, I'm not sure I'm quite following here. If the description is being correctly set for the intended variant in Wikidata, then there's no bug in the description editing code, and the problem is strictly on the retrieval side.

cooltey renamed this task from [BUG] Unable to submit Wikidata description in Traditional Chinese articles to [BUG] Unable to get updated Wikidata description in Traditional Chinese articles after submitting it.Oct 4 2017, 3:57 PM

Neither API currently provides support for specifying a language variant for Wikidata descriptions. Even the mobileview API's 'variant' parameter has no effect here. It could be added, but we'll run into the same issue as with T176678 that the mobileview API is deprecated and in principle we shouldn't be spending time on it.

@Dbrant, what's your take on the priority here?

Change 382086 abandoned by Cooltey:
Fix: Unable to submit Wikidata description in Traditional Chinese articles

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/382086

Thanks @Mholloway , was wondering to set it as a closed or merge duplicate task.