Page not found in WP app, from Google hit
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	Ijon
	Mar 6 2024, 9:08 PM

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Clicking this link:
https://quote.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail

Offered as a top result by google for this search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=monty+python+anarcho-syndicalist+commune+quote&oq=python+syndicalist+c&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgBEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCAgBEAAYFhgeMggIAhAAGBYYHjIICAMQABgWGB4yBwgEECEYjwIyBwgFECEYjwLSAQg5ODc3ajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Leads to a page not found in the (automatically started) Wikipedia app (Android).

In the browser, the link to quote correctly resolves to https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Screenshot_20240306_230036_org.wikipedia.jpg (2×1 px, 187 KB)

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Ijon created this task.Mar 6 2024, 9:08 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMar 6 2024, 9:09 PM

Hmm yes indeed, the app is set up to intercept all subdomains of *.wikipedia.org, and it interprets the subdomain as a "language", which most subdomains are.
However, if a link turns out to be a redirect to something completely different, the app doesn't know what to do with it.
A simple solution might be to compare the subdomain against a known list of languages (which we have) and if it doesn't match, bounce it out to the default system browser instead.