Minerva's language selector suggests translating an article into Norwegian Bokmål even though an article already exists
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	jhsoby
	Mar 10 2025, 1:02 PM

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

Have {{#babel:nb|no}} on your user page and/or set your browser's accept-language header to include both nb and no, like mine: nb,nn;q=0.8,no;q=0.6,se;q=0.4,en;q=0.2
On mobile web, visit an article on the English Wikipedia that already has a translation into Norwegian Bokmål. Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podiatrist
Click/tap the language icon

What happens?:

Norwegian Bokmål appears in the list of suggested languages, while the CX entrypoint also thinks it is missing in Norwegian Bokmål.

What should have happened instead?:

When the article exists in Norwegian Bokmål, that language shouldn't be listed as missing an article.

Thematically similar to T306508, which I just reopened a few days ago. Might be the same underlying cause?

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		None	T102107 Enable Content Translation in Catalan Wikipedia for all logged-in users
Open		None	T116533 ContentTranslation issues that affect people who aren't editors or translators (tracking)
Open		None	T126916 ContentTranslation gray interlanguage links issues (tracking)
Declined		None	T105577 use geolocation to show the gray interlanguage link in ContentTranslation
Invalid		None	T105578 Incorrect language code handling in ContentTranslation (tracking)
Open	BUG REPORT	None	T388400 Minerva's language selector suggests translating an article into Norwegian Bokmål even though an article already exists

• PWaigi-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 13 2025, 9:26 AM