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Wiki Games: Questions Displayed in German Despite English UI
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ARamadan-WMF
Feb 26 2025, 4:52 PM
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

*Open the Wikipedia app.
*Navigate to the Wikipedia Games feature.
*Ensure the app's UI language is set to English.
*Start a game.

What happens?:
The game's title and UI elements appear in English.
However, all questions within the game appear in German instead of English.

What should have happened instead?:
The game questions should match the UI language and be displayed in English when the app is set to English.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Wikipedia App Version: 2.7.50519-r-2025-01-30
Affected device(s): Reported on multiple devices

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
A user has reported this issue and provided feedback that the experience is inconsistent, these screenshots are from a user who reported the same incident with a Swedish interface and german articles in the game

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Screenshot_20250226-143402.png (2×1 px, 330 KB)

Event Timeline

Hi @ARamadan-WMF,

Based on the screenshots, the UIs are showing in Swedish. Could you please confirm with the user that the device's primary language is German?

Through the support email:
"I have encountered a problem with the Wikipedia games feature:

  • UI is in English but questions in German

The behavior I would like to see is:

  • [Describe proposed solution] "

"
I have encountered a problem with the Wikipedia games feature:

  • Popped up when entering German Wikipedia and only the questions where in German while the UI was English

The behavior I would like to see is:

  • I don't speak German so I would have loved to be able change the language to English."

"I have encountered a problem with the Wikipedia games feature:

  • All questions appears in German even though game's title and the entire app is in English

The behavior I would like to see is:

  • Questions should be in English

Thanks @ARamadan-WMF,

The Wiki games feature is presently accessible only to users who have added the German language within the app and since the feature is only available to the de wiki, the articles (questions) will be in German, and the UIs will be in the system language.

I will get back to users and update the ticket with the answers when received as agreed on Slack.

@cooltey , these screenshots from the same user who has a Swedish interface, not including German

Screenshot_20250226-200717.png (2×1 px, 149 KB)

Screenshot_20250226-200811.png (2×1 px, 127 KB)

Screenshot_20250226-200709.png (2×1 px, 59 KB)

Hi @ARamadan-WMF

Thanks for sharing the screenshots! I think it might be an issue where the users were accessing the wikigames feature from the article screen, when they were reading German articles.

Could you please confirm where did they enter the Wikigames feature? Was from the article screen or from the Explore feed?

Screenshot_20250227_133234_Wikipedia.jpg (2×1 px, 95 KB)
Screenshot_20250227_133541_Wikipedia Dev.jpg (2×1 px, 101 KB)
Article screen entryExplore feed entry

@cooltey , I know the ticket is resolved now (good job) , but this is one user reply for your last question:

"I was reading some English article and I have followed / clicked a link inside. I wasn't aware that someone has linked a German article inside English article.

When Wiki app has switched to a new (German) article, the games popup has appeared and I have accepted them."

Hi @ARamadan-WMF,

Yes, that's the expected behavior in the previous version, and now the issue has been fixed in the current production. Please let the user know it has been fixed and have the user to update the app to the latest version of the app.