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Language variants not correctly displayed in Android app 's language menu
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Description

List of steps to reproduce (step by step, including full links if applicable):

  • Go to English Wikipedia article of "China" in the Wikipedia App
  • Click the "Language" button
  • Scroll to "Chinese (China)" language option and read the text

What happens?:

  • It show Traditional Chinese text "中華人民共和國"

What should have happened instead?:

  • It should show Simplified Chinese text "中华人民共和国"

Software version (if not a Wikimedia wiki), browser information, screenshots, other information, etc.:

  • Official Android App version 2.7.50388-r-2021-12-02

Event Timeline

LGoto renamed this task from Language Converter wasn't applied to text shown in Wikipedia App 's language menu to Language variants not correctly displayed in Android app 's language menu.Feb 14 2022, 5:11 PM

Hi @C933103

Thanks for reporting this. I check the app and looks like the text under each language variant is correct. Could you please update your app version and check if it shows correctly?

Screenshot_20220214-092948_Wikipedia.jpg (2×1 px, 214 KB)

Or, did you mention something different? If so, please let us know, thanks!

Hi @C933103

Thanks for reporting this. I check the app and looks like the text under each language variant is correct. Could you please update your app version and check if it shows correctly?

Screenshot_20220214-092948_Wikipedia.jpg (2×1 px, 214 KB)

Or, did you mention something different? If so, please let us know, thanks!

https://youtu.be/SalxxIZ5hIE

After updated to latest app version, and with some testing, it did convert, but there's a time lag. Like in the case of this video, the zhwp site stored the article in Traditional Chinese as 眾新聞, and this article name is shown for all Chinese sites options. Only after some scrollings, the entry name for Chinese (China) and such got converted into 众新闻, the corresponding Simplified script.

Also another separate thing I noticed while testing but not sure how to write a bug report on is that, for the article China, some interlanguage link do not show what language version of Wikipedia they are leading to:

Screenshot_20220215-121506.png (2×1 px, 119 KB)

Hi @C933103, thanks for reporting that. I'll create a ticket for the additional issue you have found and close this one as resolved.

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