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plwiki has no favicon in Google
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Description

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

  • Search for an article in polish using Google, eg. sejm x kadencji polska wikipedia (the query is in Polish and I hope it'll give Polish results outside Poland too)
  • Look at the favicon displayed

What happens?:
Plwiki results have no favicon

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What should have happened instead?:
Result from plwiki should have a proper favicon.

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
The issue does not affect enwiki. Results from plwiki and enwiki compared:

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Event Timeline

Hi, have you tried to submit feedback to Google?

I've sent feedback to Google when I filed this task. I created this phab ticket as well, since I'm not sure if this is a problem at Google or at Wikimedia.

The same thing has happened with mwwiki, fawiki, and frwiki, as stated on T348203 (I've also sent feedback to Google for fawiki).

I've requested partnerships to look into this too.

@Msz2001: Do you still experience this?
I cannot reproduce this anymore for pl.wikipedia.org using https://www.google.com/search?q=sejm+x+kadencji+polska+Rzeczypospolitej+site%3Apl.wikipedia.org while being on some public WiFi on some train in Germany, using Firefox 121:

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@Msz2001: Do you still experience this?
I cannot reproduce this anymore for pl.wikipedia.org using https://www.google.com/search?q=sejm+x+kadencji+polska+Rzeczypospolitej+site%3Apl.wikipedia.org while being on some public WiFi on some train in Germany, using Firefox 121:

The favicon now displays properly on both my laptop and phone.

Thanks for retesting! Closing as the problem has magically vanished (maybe Google did something on their side that we do not know of).