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Talk page link error in Wikipedia App for Android
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Description

Steps to reproduce

  1. Get Wikipedia App from Google Play
  2. Open it
  3. Set language to English
  4. Search any existing title on enwiki which is not in the main namespace, "Wikipedia:Verifiability" for example.
  5. Enter the page and scroll to bottom
  6. Locate "View talk page"
  7. Tap "View talk page" and choose an web explorer to open it

Expected results

Get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Verifiability opened.

Actual results

Get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia:Verifiability opened.

Environments observed

App version: 2.7.50333-r-2020-10-06 and 2.7.50333-beta-2020-10-06
Android OS versions: 10
Device model: Oneplus 7T
Device language: English

To say more

This is not a bug brought by the latest update or updates in recent months. It has been there for at least a year, I should say. The problem is not complicated, simply because it adds "Talk:" before titles in all the namespaces to generate their links to talk pages.