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 <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> 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

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