Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 15:07, Angela <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Amir E. Aharoni >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Some of you may be familiar with sharing links on Facebook. >>> >>> If i try to share on Facebook an article from Wikipedia in Hebrew or in >>> Arabic, the Facebook interface offers to add a thumbnail not from the >>> article, but from the main page of that Wikipedia. The summary text >>> describing the link is also taken from the main page and not from the >>> article. >> I see the same problem for he, ar, el. Also for en if I try >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/العربية> I get pictures for the main >> page, not for the page that redirects to. However, if I shorten the >> URL to http://bit.ly/2u4hlw it shows the correct pictures. > > Thanks for confirming this. > > I reported this to Facebook a few days ago, but i don't think that > it's possible to follow up bug reports there like in Bugzilla. So i > want to at least be sure that the bug is not on our side.
It's a problem at facebook. Did you try with % encoded urls, (eg. http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94 ) or only hebrew ones? (eg. http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/חיפה ). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
