Is it possible that simple on beta just doesn't have any articles actually anywhere near you?

For example, it should only show things within a 10KM range..

Do you have an examples of pages it should've shown? Do they have coordinates properly assigned etc?

If I look for me, the town I live in, doesn't have an article on simple beta, and therefore statistically, there's gonna be little else within that 10km range that might

Except, it should still be wired up to production enwiki - https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings-labs.php

		'wgNearbyPagesUrl' => [
			'default' => 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php',
			'wikidatawiki'  => 'https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php',
			'testwikidatawiki' => 'https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php',
		],

I don't see any attempts to actually do an API request

But yet

I think it is related to that "Too many calls to Location or History APIs within a short timeframe."

Which suggests two issues. One, the browser console shouldn't be the only place this is surfaced. It should be trapped and displayed to the user.

And the underlying issue why it seems to be constantly showing that...

Change #1081707 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert "mediawiki.router: Call onRouterHashChange after push/replaceState"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1081707

For those who don’t understand, there should be a picture saying this:

Change #1081965 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/core@master] Follow-up I7e66bd7517: Only emit onRouterHashChange when the hash changes

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1081965

In T377672#10245014, @Jdlrobson wrote:

There is an error in the console. git bisect points to the above patch (I'll follow up tomorrow):

Thanks for the investigation. It looks like @Krinkle is happy to review these if it is a distraction for you. I have a fix but we can also revert and try later.

Change #1081965 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Follow-up I7e66bd7517: Only emit onRouterHashChange when the hash changes

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1081965

@Esanders Hello. I'm on train duty this wek and @Jdlrobson added this task as a train blocker. Can you ensure that the relevant fix is backported to the wmf/1.43.0-wmf.28 branch?

In T377672#10247106, @dancy wrote:

@Esanders Hello. I'm on train duty this wek and @Jdlrobson added this task as a train blocker. Can you ensure that the relevant fix is backported to the wmf/1.43.0-wmf.28 branch?

Disregard this. The .28 branch hasn't been created yet.

Disregard this. The .28 branch hasn't been created yet.

I was going to say :) It has been merged any the feature appears to be working fine on beta.

Change #1081707 abandoned by Jdlrobson:

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert "mediawiki.router: Call onRouterHashChange after push/replaceState"

Reason:

Thanks Ed! Abandoning now https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I8f4ed957a4 has been merged.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1081707

Test Result - PROD

Status: ✅ PASS
Environment: PROD
OS: macOS 15.0
Browser: Chrome 130
Device: MS MBA
Emulated Device: NA

Test Artifact(s):

Test Case 1: Verify Nearby articles functionality

1. Go to https://simple.m.wikipedia.org.
2. Press the three-line button (menu).
3. Press the Nearby icon to search for nearby articles.
4. Press “Show nearby pages.”
5. ✅ AC1: Confirm that notable nearby Wikipedia pages are displayed.

Leaving open so we can give estimate before closing.

Note: it only shows normal English language Wikipedia pages

In T377672#10279235, @Datawikipersoncontributor wrote:

Note: it only shows normal English language Wikipedia pages

If you are referring to beta cluster, yes that's correct and by design. If you'd like to display that functionality you can follow the https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_requests policy and reconfigure https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/blob/ae52a7b24bd24f9220377559165c0e7a9c06ec4a/wmf-config/InitialiseSettings-labs.php#L2107 on a per site basis. Hope this helps!