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Central Kanuri Wikipedia appears incorrectly in the Wikipedia Android app
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Description

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

  • Go to the article Nigeria in the Android app.
  • Open the list of languages.
  • Search for Kanuri.

What happens?:

One: the language cannot be found by the name "Kanuri" or "Yerwa Kanuri". Screenshots:

Screenshot_20250312_094150_Wikipedia.jpg (1×720 px, 127 KB)

Screenshot_20250312_094157_Wikipedia.jpg (1×720 px, 129 KB)

Two: The language appears in the list under the name "Knc", which is the language code and not the language name.

Screenshot_20250312_093444_Wikipedia.jpg (1×720 px, 99 KB)

What should have happened instead?:

  1. Searching for "Kanuri" and "Yerwa Kanuri" is supposed to find the language.
  2. The language name must appear as "Yerwa Kanuri".

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

App version: 2.7.50524-r-2025-03-04

Event Timeline

Dbrant triaged this task as Medium priority.
Dbrant subscribed.

Thanks for the heads up! This is simply because the app hasn't yet updated its list of languages (which we ship statically, and update periodically). This will be updated in our next release.