wikipedia_arz_all (and a few other WP) is failing with `Cannot render [] into an article`

[benoit74]

Recipe: https://farm.openzim.org/recipes/wikipedia_arz_all

Error is:

[error] [2024-03-02T00:03:51.082Z] Error downloading article كريس_ستاندرينج
[error] [2024-03-02T00:03:51.086Z] Failed to run mwoffliner after [7351s]: {
    "name": "Error",
    "message": "Cannot render [] into an article"
}
[error] [2024-03-02T00:03:51.086Z] 

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Cannot render [] into an article

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Looks like the article is not empty online: https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC

[benoit74]

wikipedia_id_all is impacted as well: https://github.com/openzim/zim-requests/issues/879

[kelson42]

@audiodude This newly stops many Wikipedia to render properly. I believe this is not a regression with 1.14 but this impairs us seriously to move forward with testing of 1.14. Last run of WPAR is impacted: https://farm.openzim.org/pipeline/c8708ce9-f831-4c06-a9d6-748e6e860cec/debug

[kelson42]

WPCA impacted as well https://farm.openzim.org/pipeline/1c29259f-d858-40f4-8cfb-530696e2b20f/debug

[audiodude]

Although the error message is the same, I'm not sure this is the same bug.

For WPARZ, I cannot reproduce with an articleList of only كريس_ستاندرينج.

For WPCA, it is 100% reproducible with an articleList of Khalifa_ibn_Askar. However it is also the case that https://ca.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html/Khalifa_ibn_Askar returns empty/missing data: https://gist.github.com/audiodude/139ad898a925733d56fd08fee5a5fb9f

WPID doesn't reproduce the bug when using an article list of IL-2_Sturmovik_(series). However it fails otherwise with the following stack trace: https://gist.github.com/audiodude/7743f8e6020c4dbe9c4f32301c7e5a6e

[audiodude]

Finally, realizing that WPAR is different from WPARZ, I tried the former and could not reproduce with articleList of توموت

[kelson42]

Hmmm, not sure what should be done next. In your log the line:

[warn] [2024-06-30T18:30:00.292Z] Couldn't find strings file for [id]

Seem suspicious.

[audiodude]

Seem suspicious.

That's the new message added in #2050. Before, it would simply fail to find the id file, since there's no translation file for that language, and fall back silently to en. Now it logs a message whenever it can't find a required file.

[kelson42]

I get it, somehow this message is missing the keyword "language"...

[audiodude]

Overall though, this issue is currently non-reproducible and seems due to some kind of upstream bug. Perhaps we should update the code to be more resilient to that. It's not clear what kind of phabricator ticket we could file other than "JSON endpoint sometimes returns empty response for non-empty articles" but without a demonstrable reproduction case.

[audiodude]

Just re-tested ARZ, and it's failing on a different article now. This is definitely an upstream bug and I've filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379017