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Update Apple touch icon for en.wiktionary.org
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Author: michael

Description:
Recently discovered, en.wiktionary.org has this goofy icon:

http://en.wiktionary.org/apple-touch-icon.png

Please replace it with this one, sized at 144px square to accommodate all applicable devices:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiktionary-icon.png

If multiple sizes can be uploaded and linked, I’d be glad to create optimized versions at the respective sizes.

Previous discussion on the wiki:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2013/March#Apple_touch_icon


Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: enhancement

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Reference
bz46431

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 1:38 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz46431.

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59771 (Gerrit Change I48c1774cb2bf3fa10b05b700a7ec3b50587de73a)

michael wrote:

“There is also no need to have different sizes of the logo, as iOS rescales it automatically; 144 x 144 is the suggested size for Retina display” —from the code review site (not sure if I can log in there).

Since iOS is a mobile operating system, it would be thoughtful to provide files in the smaller sizes too, to reduce bandwidth costs and limits for readers. Good practice even for many non-mobile readers.

Since MW can automatically resize images, I wonder if it’s possible to include meta tags that provide the appropriate URLs to take advantage of that.

There are probably a few different way to do that, one of them being to add more meta tags specifically for Apple Touch icons per documentation at http://tiny.cc/frmpvw.

However, I decided to use the lazy way, and simply reduced the file size from 31060 bytes to 11171 — which is, I believe, quite acceptable, see [[:commons:File:Wiktionary-icon.png]].

If you think it's too much, feel free to play with the file, and request a re-upload directly on Commons.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/59771 (Gerrit Change I48c1774cb2bf3fa10b05b700a7ec3b50587de73a) | change APPROVED and MERGED [by Reedy]