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Wikidata edit (rollback) not propagated to Wikipedia after 10 days
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Wikidata item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105338 was vandalized at 22 March 2019 by an IP-user who among other things changed the image (P18) to the image of another person. The vandalism was backrolled 2 April 2019.

10 days later, at 12 April 2019, some users at dawiki see the image from the vandalism in the infobox at https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Wilders which fetches the image from Wikidata. One logged in user, and one not logged in user reported seeing the wrong image. I saw the correct image when logged in, but the wrong image when not logged in.

A null edit seemed to fix the problem, but I think the rollback at 2 April should have propagated to Wikipedias after 10 days.

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I found the same problem at huwiki at the page https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Wilders by looking at the global file usage for
the wrong image at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarkRutte.jpg. Again when logged in at huwíki I saw the correct image of Geert Wilders. And when I logged off, I saw the image of Mark Rutte in the infobox. Again I fixed it by a null edit of the page.

There's no hint to what might have gone wrong here. We will try to reproduce this in production (sandbox entities).

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Not able to reproduce, and this is quite old now.
Please report back if it happens again