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Success message shown and article counter updated even though no article is created
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Description

Description:

After selecting an article and choosing Translate in the Starter Kit workflow as part of the essential task: "Translate or create an essential article", I am taken directly to the success screen ("Article published!") without being redirected to the Content Translation tool or creating any article.

The workflow reports that an article was created and increments the article counter, but no article exists on the target wiki.

Steps to reproduce:

  • Start the essential task: "Translate or create an essential article"
  • Choose 1000 essential articles option
  • Select an article suggestion from the list (e.g., Mahatma Gandhi).
  • Choose Translate (Use Content Translation).
  • Click Confirm selection.

What happens?

  • Content Translation tool does not open.
  • Workflow immediately shows the "Article published!" success screen.
  • Article counter is incremented ("1 Article created").
  • No article is actually created on the target wiki.

What should have happened instead?

  • Content Translation tool should open and allow the user to create or translate the article.
  • Success screen should only be shown after the article has been successfully published.
  • Article creation metrics/counters should only be updated after a successful publication.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Tried with both Punjabi and Hindi wiki as target URL. Articles are not in the list of contributions.

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
After screen 1, I see screen 2. Content Translation tool does not open, and no article is created. However, the article counter is updated and a success message is displayed indicating that the article was published.

Screenshot 2026-06-08 at 12.41.15 PM.png (1,548×1,654 px, 216 KB)

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Details

Related Changes in GitLab:
TitleReferenceAuthorSource BranchDest Branch
Fix: Restore status 4 (existing langlink) in translate completion checkrepos/lpl/starterkit-v1!96ngkountasfix/restore-translate-langlink-status-4main
Refactor: simplify essential-article source dedup and tidy importsrepos/lpl/starterkit-v1!95ngkountasrefactor/T428504-essential-source-cleanupmain
Fix: Translate task no longer auto-completes from existing langlinksrepos/lpl/starterkit-v1!93eamedinaT428504-false-successmain
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Event Timeline

toluayo merged https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/lpl/starterkit-v1/-/merge_requests/93

Fix: Translate task no longer auto-completes from existing langlinks

ngkountas opened https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/lpl/starterkit-v1/-/merge_requests/96

Fix: Restore status 4 (existing langlink) in translate completion check

eamedina merged https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/lpl/starterkit-v1/-/merge_requests/96

Fix: Restore status 4 (existing langlink) in translate completion check

eamedina merged https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/lpl/starterkit-v1/-/merge_requests/95

Refactor: simplify essential-article source dedup and tidy imports

eamedina set the point value for this task to 4.Jun 15 2026, 5:11 PM