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interwiki/inter-language links to many (but not all) other Wiktionaries not displaying in English Wiktionary in mobile
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Hello. This is The.shahab , sysop in Persian Wiktionary.
Recently, I have discovered a bug in English Wiktionary; in any given entry, while logged in by cellphone (Mobile view), you can not get connected to any language of other Wiktionary projects (except Chinese). By Desktop view though, everything is normal. There is no such problem in Persian Wiktionary.

See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2026/June#Linkage_of_Wiktionaries for more explanation/details.

Event Timeline

-sche renamed this task from Linkage problem in English Wiktionary to interwiki/inter-language links to many (but not all) other Wiktionaries not displaying in English Wiktionary in mobile.Jun 30 2026, 8:16 PM
-sche updated the task description. (Show Details)

I have tried to make the title a bit more descriptive, and added a link to the discussion where there is more information, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2026/June#Linkage_of_Wiktionaries. This is, to my understanding, about the "文A" link at the top of each page, which on e.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blazer displays "文A 32 languages" for most people but, for The.shahab on Mobile view on the English Wiktionary, only displays one language, Chinese. (I cannot personally reproduce the problem: on Desktop view I see "文A 32 languages" and on Mobile view, whether accessed from a computer or from an actual mobile device, I see "文A" and when I click on that I see a long list of suggested languages.)

Unsure where this issue lies between ULS, Wikidata, Minerva skin and interwiki links.

I cannot reproduce either. Please rule out user scripts and gadgets by testing with safemode=1
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Safemode

Aklapper changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Jul 13 2026, 7:26 PM

@The.shahab: Please try again with safemode=1 - This allows you to test if a problem is because of your user scripts or personal gadgets without uninstalling them. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Locating_broken_scripts for more information. Thanks!