Sometimes the top article does not load in merge items game

[Former user]

Sometimes when running random mode and a merge item page appears, the top article is not loaded, only the bottom one. The text keeps saying "Loading article [ID-number]".

Found on Windows 7 running the latest version of Google Chrome.

[Waldir Pimenta]

I've seen this happen in all game modes: sometimes the article doesn't load, and sometimes it seems to load (article title, labels, etc. appear) but no text is presented, or a "..." is shown. There could be a timeout and and error message displayed for all such cases.

[Andre Engels]

I've had this a number of times; when an item does not load, it is because the Wikidata entry has already been deleted. When there is no text, it is because there is no Wikipedia page connected to the data item, or the Wikipedia page is a redirect, or the Wikipedia page is from a language that has a dash in the language code (like bat-smg), the latter because the software tries to find it using an underscore instead of a dash.

I will create a separate issue for the latter case, the other two cases of 'labels but no article' seem to not be incorrect. However, the non-existing wikidata items, as Anonymous specifies, should be automatically skipped in my opinion. I propose to leave this issue for those cases only.

[Waldir Pimenta]

See also issue #51.

[Magnus Manske]

The "deleted item" issue should be fixed for at least a week now. Marking it as duplicate of #51.

[Magnus Manske]

Duplicate of #51.

[Waldir Pimenta]

Well technically #51 is a dupe of this issue, not the other way around :)

[Waldir Pimenta]

Issue #51 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

[Waldir Pimenta]

Resolved per @magnusmanske