Eric K wrote:
> 70% of web traffic on any page of my wiki (I assume the same is true for most
> other wikis and sites) comes from a search engine. In search results, people
> see two things and use them to decide in a few seconds whether to click on
> the link or not:
> 1- page title
> 2- meta tag description (if defined) OR the first sentence of the page.
>
> #1, the page title is fine in Mediawiki. It is: {{PAGENAME}} - "the wiki
> name".
> #2 is not right. For example if we search "America", we see:
> - "This article is about the United States of America. For other uses of
> terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), ..."
> Ideally this should be something that the editors put into the page like
> other article text.Let them handle the description such as "An article about
> the USA, its history, government and politics, culture, economy and other
> topics". This is better than the disamb. notice that comes up currently in
> search.
>
> We can install an external extension to define meta description however this
> should be a built-in feature of Mediawiki where people should be able to use:
> <metadesc> for making sure our search engine results are what we want them to
> be.
>
> Eric
I'm not sure it's a good idea. This way And it isn't that bad. You
search for America and see that it's about America, the United States of
America.
You could have a different disambiguation convention on your site.
I agree though that those texts shouldn't appear if you don't come via a
redirection.
For people wanting metas:
*http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Metas
*http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Advanced_Meta
*http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MetaKeywordsTag
*http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_HTML_Meta_and_Title
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