Hello! Thank you for the report! This issue is currently being tracked here[0]. We had hoped to fix this properly but maybe we should consider a temporary change in the client to handle this more gracefully.
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119266 On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > The Android Wikipedia app shows Wikipedia's red links as blue links, > then returns a user-unfriendly 404 error page, with the somewhat > dishonest text "an unknown error occurred". > > Alternative, and better, behaviours would be one of (in no particular > order): > > * Show a red link; behave like desktop Wikipedia > > * Show a red link; when the link is selected, show a customised 404 > page, which advises users how start a new article > > * Show red text, but make it non linking (i.e. "unclickable") > > * Remove the link and colour-styling, and render ordinary text > > * Fix the erorr page so it says "Sorry, that page does not exist", > with a link to a guide to starting a new article > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >
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