Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-03 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
On 3 apr. 2015, at 06:27, Stas Malyshev smalys...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi! 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-03 Thread James Pearson
On Apr 2, 2015 10:05 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: Twitter exclusively uses their proprietary Twitter cards markup ( meta name=twitter:card content=summary / ...) and requires you to validate and submit your site for approval before they'll display cards. This isn't

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread James Pearson
Thanks, it looks like I have some reading to do. - P On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
Brian Wolff wrote: On Apr 2, 2015 2:58 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Brian Wolff
On Apr 2, 2015 2:58 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@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,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Brian Wolff
On Apr 2, 2015 11:02 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Brian Wolff wrote: On Apr 2, 2015 2:58 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: 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:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2015-04-02 8:44 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: However there is clearly a desire to be able to identify a representitive image for an article. This need is exhibited across many websites including reddit, facebook, google plus, etc, but also our own site as noted by the page images extension for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! 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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Jon Robson
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote: On 2015-04-02 8:44 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: However there is clearly a desire to be able to identify a representitive image for an article. This need is exhibited across many websites including reddit, facebook,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Jon Robson
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

[Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread James Pearson
Hello. I'm a developer at reddit, and this morning I was looking into how we generate thumbnail images from Wikipedia (and I suppose all Mediawiki) articles, due to a user report that they had an unexpected thumbnail on their submission[0]. You can read my post there for more details, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

2015-04-02 Thread Max Semenik
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:35 AM, James Pearson ja...@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.