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Wikibase: messages displayed instead of parsed
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Currently, at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21487967, the heading for the list of Wikipedia pages is shown as ⧼wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia⧽ without any uselang modification. This is the same as the message when uselang=qqx, but without that it should be parsed like other messages. Confirmed when safemode=1 (not caused by on-wiki scripting) The same issue affects the monolingual text field.

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I don’t see the error. Which language do you use? (It looks like English in the screenshot, but perhaps it’s British or Canadian English or something.)

This also looks a lot like T227814: [Regression wmf.13] Wikidata localisation is broken – if it’s the same problem, a purge should fix it. (Perhaps that’s why I can’t reproduce it?)

My language is plain default English. The error is that "wikibase-sitelinks-wikipedia" is shown instead of the actual contents of the message ("Wikipedia")

I’m also looking at it in English and still don’t see the error. I’ve purged the page now – can you do the same (even though it shouldn’t make a difference) and check if you still see the error?

Now its gone, but it still shouldn't have happened...

Well, sure, but it was fixed last week already, there were just some broken pages remaining in the cache. (And I think purging all pages pre-emptively, to ensure they’re fixed, would be too expensive.)