Last modified: 2013-04-25 13:03:26 UTC
1) [[m:Special:Random]] 2) View source 3) Find <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="//meta.wikipedia.org/apple-touch-icon.png" /> 4) Get a 404 Reason is obvious, see bug 27911: 'wgAppleTouchIcon' => array( [...] 'wiki' => 'http://$lang.$site.org/apple-touch-icon.png', [...]
foundationwiki is also broken in the same way, so whatever the fix is it should account for more than just meta.
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/60670 (Gerrit Change Ib5554c547295d9b53b4f554e2773a4d7c14f8c6a)
This is now fixed with the above Gerrit change – we are no longer linking to 404, but both wikis are using the Wikipedia icon from https://bits.wikimedia.org/apple-touch/wikipedia.png for now. This can be fixed by creating new icons and committing them into 'docroot/bits/apple-touch/wmf.png' and /docroot/bits/apple-touch/community.png' and adding… 'wikimedia' => '//bits.wikimedia.org/apple-touch/wmf.png', 'foundationwiki' => '//bits.wikimedia.org/apple-touch/wmf.png', 'metawiki' => '//bits.wikimedia.org/apple-touch/community.png', … to InitialiseSettings.php, should such a need arise. I can imagine other wikis (Wikispecies, Wikidata) wanting to have their own Apple Touch icons, but this should be taken care of in new bugs.
After an IRC discussion with Krinkle, I submitted Gerrit change #60777 which is a change of heart — we'll be keeping icons in docroot from now on, and only linking to project-specific ones from bits.wm.org/apple-touch. What this means for this bug specifically is that we are no longer linking to non-existing files /at all/ — having wgAppleTouchIcon => array( 'default' => false, ) means that MediaWiki will not generate any links to Touch icons in HTML <head /> (this fixes bug 19392). Since there might be a need to have per-wiki specific icons, they can be committed into the appropriate docroot. For wikis with subdomain names (such as $lang.wiktionary.org), they can be defined in InitialiseSettings.php as shown above and committed into /docroot/bits/apple-touch.
