Thanks, it looks like I have some reading to do.
- P
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi James! Thanks for mailing out.
On the subject of OG tags, we have a bunch of bugs around explicitly
using og tags ([1] for example)
This thread is very enlightening: [2]
tldr: Essentially I think many of us, myself included, would like to
add 'og:image' tags but the Wikipedia community as a whole is not 100%
sure this is aligned with the mission.
I wonder if adopting
http://schema.org would be a less controversial
move and help you towards your goal.
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T32113
[2]
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/545421
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:35 AM, James Pearson
<james(a)reddit.com> wrote:
> While writing this, I recalled that the Wikipedia Android app displays
> thumbnails in its search results. I think that's pulling from
OpenSearch
> with the PageImages extension[2]? but I
haven't really delved into that
> yet. I'm curious how those images get pulled - if it's taking into
account
infoboxes
or such, or just the first image on the page, or what.
It uses a scoring system that takes position on page, size and w:h ratio
into account.
> Would it be feasible to include an og:image tag on pages for which we
have
> a reasonable guess as to the thumbnail? Open
Graph[3] is supported by
what
> seems anecdotally to me to be a wide range of
services, so good hints
there
would
improve thumbnails for links on not just reddit, but Facebook,
Twitter, various chat clients, I think several Wordpress plugins, etc.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33338
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