Steps to replicate the issue:
- Search on Google:
- wiktionnaire → French Wiktionary
- "from medieval italian boccale" → English Wiktionary
- μπουκάλι → Greeek Wiktionary
- "Manual:Configuration settings" → MediaWiki.org
- wikidata → Wikidata
- commons → Wikimedia Commons
- wikifunctions:FAQ → Wikifunctions
What happens?:
For Wikimedia projects as results, the site name displays as “Wikipedia” (or “Wikipedia Commons”).
What should have happened instead?:
It should display real project name (“Wiktionary”, “Wikidata”, “Wikimedia Commons”…) or localized version (“Wiktionnaire”, “Βικιλεξικό”…).
Other information:
Reported on Meta-Wiki and on French Wiktionary.
To Do
- From the Google search console, use the URL inspection tool to understand where does the “Wikipedia” site name come from.
- If og:site_name is still not in source page of Wiktionary pages indexed by Google, request manually a recrawl.
- Check whether the home page which should host Schema WebSite structured data must be at root /; or may be located elsewhere (e.g. /wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page) (see T120085)
- Choose between recommended Schema:WebSite and alternative og:site_name.
- Apply chosen solution (if Schema:WebSite is chosen, we should revert the patch which adds og:site_name to Wiktionaries and MediaWiki.org)
