[BUG] Invalid image URL on the newcomer homepage’s Impact section
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	Tacsipacsi
	Feb 18 2020, 1:29 PM

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Steps to Reproduce:

Unsure, maybe impossible. When I open my own newcomer homepage, the thumbnail image of https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9metorsz%C3%A1g is //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/EU-Germany.svg/47.558139534884px-EU-Germany.svg.png, which is invalid (it looks like a thumbnail URL mixed up with a geocoordinate).

Actual Results:

The thumbnail image for the Németország article doesn’t appear, its place is blank.

Expected Results:

A thumbnail (or placeholder) appears, just like for the other four articles.

Proposed solution

Per @Etonkovidova's confirmation of the bug and notes in T245508#6778931, it seems like certain SVGs are not being rendered properly as the thumbnail.
For such images which are resulting in a "Cannot load the image" console error, can we instead show the placeholder thumbnail image (shown when an article has no image available)?

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		KStoller-WMF	T248330 [EPIC] Growth: Positive reinforcement
Resolved		KStoller-WMF	T222310 [EPIC] Positive reinforcement: New Impact Module
Declined	BUG REPORT	None	T245508 [BUG] Invalid image URL on the newcomer homepage’s Impact section

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Tacsipacsi created this task.Feb 18 2020, 1:29 PM

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RHo renamed this task from Invalid image URL on the newcomer homepage’s Impact section to [BUG] Invalid image URL on the newcomer homepage’s Impact section.Jan 26 2021, 5:44 PM

RHo added a project: Growth-Team.

Checked huwiki (via Special:Impact page) - the issue seems to happen quite often. In the screenshot below, the thumbnail for Németország article is displayed but it's missing for another article with the similar template - Magyarország

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<a class="article-image" href="/wiki/Magyarorsz%C3%A1g" title="Szócikk megtekintése" data-link-id="impact-article-image"><div alt="Magyarország" title="Magyarország" class="real-image" style="background-image: url(//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/EU-Hungary.svg/47.558139534884px-EU-Hungary.svg.png);"></div></a>

And there is a message in the Console - "Cannot load the image":
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/EU-Hungary.svg/47.558139534884px-EU-Hungary.svg.png

Note:

the issue is less common, but it's still present on cswiki
the issue is not present - as far as I could see - in betalabs or in testwiki.

Etonkovidova mentioned this in T258597: Consider removing Special:Impact.Jan 27 2021, 12:50 AM

I've updated the task description with a proposed solution to show the placeholder image icon instead when the image thumbnail fails to load for any reason.

Etonkovidova added subscribers: • mewoph, MMiller_WMF.Feb 19 2021, 7:19 PM

MBinder_WMF added a project: Growth-Team-Filtering.Apr 15 2021, 6:51 PM

MMiller_WMF added a parent task: T222310: [EPIC] Positive reinforcement: New Impact Module.Jun 30 2021, 10:54 PM

I'm closing this task, but this edge case is covered within this task: T313274

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	Feb 15 2021, 3:03 PM

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