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Summary

favicon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,419 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Named after: bookmark[2], icon[3]
  • Subclass of: icon[4]
  • Commons category: Favicons[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Favicons[6]
  • Described at URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#rel-icon[7]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/favicon[8]
  • Main Wikidata property: P8972[9]

Why It Matters

favicon has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] favicon is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

Gibara

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). favicon. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/favicon
MLA “favicon.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/favicon.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_favicon_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{favicon}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/favicon}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): favicon — https://4ort.xyz/entity/favicon (retrieved 2026-10-14)

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Trivialist · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → bookmark, icon
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ Commons category: Favicons, Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  2. 13w ago · Trivialist · 2026-07-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → bookmark, icon
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Named after: bookmark"
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