Thank you @HaukweKwor.

I tested on several article types, and I get links on all articles types, except for porn actresses ("Suggestions are no longer available on this article.") Other wikis aren't concerned.

We are investigating the case.

Thank you for your interest! This problem is still occurring, so as far as I'm concerned, it wasn't a fluke; it was happening yesterday and it's still happening today.

We don't have a fix yet, but we at least have a working theory as to the underlying issue. Essentially these particular articles have certain wikitext (a bulleted list and italic text inside) that triggers an issue.

And because no one is actually able to accept or reject the suggestions, it seems like a lot of these articles are being suggested because they aren't ever removed from the Suggested Edits queue.

https://api.wikimedia.org/service/linkrecommendation/v1/linkrecommendations/wikipedia/it/Alana_Evans?threshold=0.5&max_recommendations=3 shows suggestions, but the actual article displays "No suggestions are no longer available":

AddLinkArticleTarget.js:293 Failed to locate "Desperate Housewives" (occurrences seen: 0) in document.

Error: Unable to find any expected phrase in document.
    at RecommendedLinkToolbarDialog.getAnnotationViewAtIndex (RecommendedLinkToolbarDialog.js:471:4)
    at RecommendedLinkToolbarDialogDesktop.showFirstRecommendation (RecommendedLinkToolbarDialogDesktop.js:157:25)
    at RecommendedLinkToolbarDialog.afterSetupProcess (RecommendedLinkToolbarDialog.js:134:7)
    at RecommendedLinkToolbarDialogDesktop.afterSetupProcess (RecommendedLinkToolbarDialogDesktop.js:44:72)
    at RecommendedLinkToolbarDialogDesktop.<anonymous> (RecommendedLinkToolbarDialog.js:95:9)

Hello @HaukweKwor,

Thank you for creating this task. Unfortunately, we did not yet manage to figure out what is causing this issue, but I can understand this to be frustrating. I'm wondering, since all of the instances are happening in the Filmografia section, would you be willing to exclude Add Link suggestions in that section, at least temporarily?

If so, any it.wikipedia administrator can make the change via CommunityConfiguration. On https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CommunityConfiguration/GrowthSuggestedEdits, one needs to scroll to List of excluded sections from the Add link task and add the Filmografia section. Note that for technical reasons, this change does not take effect immediately (T313642). If you let me know once the configuration change, I can speed that process up, so that the broken articles are excluded quickly.

Let me know what you think about this!

Best regards,
Martin Urbanec

Thanks Martin, I'll inform the it wikipedia administrators.

In T396346#10956217, @HaukweKwor wrote:

Thanks Martin, I'll inform the it wikipedia administrators.

Thank you for the response. If this conversation is public, I would appreciate if you could post a link here. If not, would you mind letting us know if the configuration gets updated?

Possible ways to move forward:

• remove task suggestions from queue via frontend api (problem: abuse vector)
• fix/update parser from hell to not generate these suggestions (problem: work in a service that is hopefully replaced by another team soon (tm))
• show the suggestions to the user (problem: text in italics are often title and should not have links)

In T396346#10968723, @Urbanecm_WMF wrote:

In T396346#10956217, @HaukweKwor wrote:

Thanks Martin, I'll inform the it wikipedia administrators.

Thank you for the response. If this conversation is public, I would appreciate if you could post a link here. If not, would you mind letting us know if the configuration gets updated?

Last week I asked on the itWIki telegram group, but now I made a public post that you can find here: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Richieste_agli_amministratori/Richieste_correnti#Problemi_con_il_bot_Add-Link_(T396346)

Hope this helps!