https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14882
Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |INVALID
--- Comment #8 from Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-11-17 06:00:09 UTC
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Resolving this as INVALID -- will not install this extension.
1) <meta keywords> are obsolete, ignored by most or all modern search spiders.
Absent specific documentation indicating that there is some specific benefit we
can get, we should not bother producing them. (Removing the existing crappy
default <meta keywords> is on my todo list!)
2) If they were known to be useful, then we would need smarter generation which
produces relevant keywords based on the actual page -- applying the same
keywords to the entire wiki's content namespace would be misleading at best.
3) <meta description> appears to actually be used, at least sometimes, for
search engine result listings. But again, making use of this would require
sensible and appropriate descriptions to be created for each page; a general
"definition of XYZ" for every single entry would harm more than it helps, since
if it were used it would make search results much less useful -- they would
lack any actual definition text!
4) Nor is it clear that a <meta description> would help at all with *ranking*.
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