https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62811
--- Comment #19 from Quiddity <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Jared Zimmerman (WMF) from comment #17) > I ask again, what is the argument against this in your mind, "social issue" > is too vague for me to understand. I believe MZ is suggesting that this is the kind of change that ought to be 'floated' onwiki first. It has a very good chance of being supported - we'd all like the world to see more content from wikimedia - especially if a trial-run convinces more people to click-through to our sites. However, changing our html output for the benefit of a single site is not a common occurance (afaik), especially for a commercial site (no matter how unbelievable it is that anyone ever clicks ads!). As Jon notes in #c5, these are somewhat ungood proprietary meta tags... Editors would worry about: A) a well-defined endpoint to the trial-run, if it isn't a fairly clear "success" (metrics need to be defined, and whether we can measure the difference quantitatively needs to be verified), B) slippery slope outcomes - eg would we also then consider metadata output especially for Indenti.ca and Google+ and Facebook and IMDB and etc. (or conversely, do we already do this for some sites, and this would fill a gap? Extension:OpenGraphMeta exists, but isn't installed on Enwiki. I'm not sure what we already do.) C) technical reversability and criteria for removal - it's nice to have assurances that if/when Twitter enters its Myspace decline, we can cleanly remove this extension, and that it will be done willingly. Further notes are in https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_sitewide_preferences_get_changed HTH. (In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #18) > Adding meta tags specific for Twitter would anger many Wiki(p|m)edians > because it would be seen as favoring Twitter over [insert favorite social > network here]. > > [[Wikipedia:PERENNIAL#Share_pages_on_Facebook.2C_Twitter_etc.]] is the basic > argument against any form of catering to specifically one site. Indeed. Although, if approached in the right way, and *oh dear god* without those site's icons being thrust in our faces constantly (either well hidden, or plaintext only), then it might be nice to re-address this one some day. Getting more eyeballs on our brilliant prose and fabulous images, might be worth a single "share" link. (But that's a separate discussion) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
