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Wikipedia’s android app problem in Bengali Wikipedia

Aftabuzzaman

On wikipedia’s android app, many card-view option doesn’t working for ‘’‘Bengali Wiki’’’. I need advice how can i fix them? what need to do?
To reproduce this problem, just change “wikipedia language” to bengali (bn) in the app & refresh.

  1. “Trending” isn’t working. (Go to “Customize the feed” → “Deselect all” → select only “Trending” & now refresh. there is nothing. just a blank page)

  2. “Featured article” isn’t working. (Go to “Customize the feed” → “Deselect all” → select only “Featured article” & now refresh. there is nothing. just a blank page. but Bengali wikipedia has some Featured article & has a id for them “mf-tfa” )

How can i fix this two things in the app?

TheDJ

The issue with trending, I’m not entirely sure what could cause that…

But the 2nd are called Featured Feeds. Supporting this requires configuration inside the Bengali Wikipedia. Configuration instructions are listed on the documentation page of the extension.

Relevant configuration pages for English Wikipedia can be found from here

Aftabuzzaman
  1. “Trending” is working today.
  2. I already did that 5 months ago. https://bn.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=featured is also working. i think bengali wiki need to be added here https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/377679/1/lib/feed/featured.js
    so i need to ask to add tfa, right?
cooltey

Hi @Aftabuzzaman, thanks for submitting feedback!

We’ve noticed the first issue (the Trending card does not appear) and have created a ticket for it.

You can track the ticket’s status here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184231 :flushed:

TheDJ

Ah, I had no idea there was a language whitelist for this feature… Yes, I guess you have to request a change to that array via a ticket then…