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Browse prototype lists not showing article snippets
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Looks like the browse prototype gather lists aren't showing article snippets for any articles beyond the first.

For example, see: http://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:TopicTag/American_TV_dramas

or http://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:TopicTag/San_Francisco_landmarks

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Looks like the TextExtracts extension cannot handle multiple titles [1]. As you can see from the URL there is no extracts for the page 'Pen'.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exchars=175&titles=Book|Pen

Confusingly you have to apply a limit since the default is 1 (I complained to @MaxSem about this a while ago but he didn't seem to understand why this was a problem)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exchars=175&titles=Book|Pen&exlimit=2
You'll see in the response "exlimit was too large for a whole article extracts request, lowered to 1"
We use exintro to get round this
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&exchars=175&titles=Book|Pen&exlimit=2&exintro

Change 213483 had a related patch set uploaded (by Phuedx):
Show article snippets for Browse article

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/213483

Change 213483 merged by jenkins-bot:
Show article snippets for Browse article

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/213483