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Images not loading in Wikipedia Android app
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Description

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

  • Tap on the notification that the new recommended reading list is ready (opens Wikipedia app at recommended reading list page)

What happens?:
Images do not load. Texts do load so one can open articles (and not just these of the recommended reading list but any). Images also don't load for other articles, not just those in recommended reading list. This doesn't happen always, just sometimes. Trying to refresh or navigating elsewhere and reopening the recommended reading list doesn't help.
It looks like this (I just cut out the text at the top):

bug11.jpg (829×1,643 px, 119 KB)

And when opening a nonexistent image in an article, it shows this (An error occurred – Package android does not belong to 10260):
bug22.jpg (682×1,475 px, 39 KB)

What should have happened instead?:
It should always load the images.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Wikipedia Android app 50566-r-2026-02-04

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

Event Timeline

HNordeenWMF added a subscriber: ABorbaWMF.

@ABorbaWMF can you replicate on the current play store build?

Appears to be fixed on 50568-r-2026-02-24, tested on OnePlus 8 on Android 13, and Pixel 6 on Android 16. Tested on 2 different accounts.

This is not fixed. Screenshot is in v50569-r-2026-03-03 when opening the Recommended reading list by going to Saved then Discover so apparently not just "when opening app via recommended reading list notification" (will remove that from the issue title):

notloading.jpg (932×1,043 px, 108 KB)

Maybe nothing to do with the app and just some API/server issue at the time. When I go to that page now, the images are loading. I'll investigate what could be the cause when it happens next time...it would be good to maybe display a popup for a few seconds like "Images do not load, error details: lorem ipsum" which would help with debugging.

Prototyperspective renamed this task from Images not loading in Wikipedia Android app when opening app via recommended reading list notification to Images not loading in Wikipedia Android app.Mar 26 2026, 6:08 PM

Still happens in v50574-r-2026-03-20. And have a lot of free storage space available so that's not the cause either. I open the app and navigated very quickly to the recommended reading list. I tried it again where I open the app, let it load 1 sec so the images display and only then go to the recommended reading list and the images are there.

What I noticed today with the latest version of the app is that after tapping on one of the recommendations and going back some articles were replaced – one that I meant to click on afterwards was gone and there were some new ones. I will see if that happens again and may file a separate bug report about that.

Could not reproduce on 50580-r-2026-04-20
Tested on:
Pixel 6 on Android 16
OnePlus 8 on Android 13

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