How wikipedia.org Looks on Facebook

79/100
Needs work
1 fix recommended

This page shows how wikipedia.org appears when shared on Facebook. The current preview headline reads "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". It pairs with the description "Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedi..." and a social image. Overall, wikipedia.org's setup scores 79/100 against Facebook best practices.

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

www.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

www.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around...

Analysis

wikipedia.org's social setup currently has 1 warning that affect how it renders on Facebook. The most impactful fixes are listed below - they range from missing required tags to image dimensions that will be cropped or rejected by specific platforms.

In particular: missing twitter:card tag. Each of these has a one-line fix in the recommendations panel above.

What's working well: social share image found; title length is good (32 chars); description length is good (130 chars). 3 of the checks we run pass cleanly.

Frequently Asked Questions

wikipedia.org declares `og:type` as `website`. This tells Facebook how to categorize the content when generating a preview.

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