Out of curiosity, what is the reasoning behind having the /zh-tw and /zh-cn
pages indicate that the /wiki pages are canonical? It seems a bit strange to
say that they're more or less the same page when their content isn't really
equivalent and is targeted at different sets of users.

Shen

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Liangent <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can ask Facebook to make a change: load the page specified by you
> and display it to you, and load another canonical version to store (so
> they can do proper link count etc.)...
>
> -Liangent
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Liangent <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I guess it's because we have <link rel="canonical"
> > href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail"; /> in page source, so
> > Facebook is fetching the canonical (variant-neutral) version (and this
> > is expected, since http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/Gmail and
> > http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/Gmail refer to the same article), where
> > zh is used as the interface language. However zh falls back to
> > zh-hans, so all interface messages are in zh-hans.
> >
> > -Liangent
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:49 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Gentlemen, no matter if in Google search results, or Facebook link
> >> previews, links that specifically have the zh-tw part in them
> >> http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/ ...
> >> still end up having simplified Chinese, despite no such simplified
> <title>
> >> appearing in the entire page.
> >> I suspect somehow the simplified Chinese version is considered Cache
> >> Equivalent for <title> purposes ... but it is not and looks horrible to
> >> me trying to present a fully Traditional appearing link.
> >> Go ahead and test, share "http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/Gmail"; via
> >> Facebook, and notice the simplified Chinese there in the title of the
> >> link created.
> >>
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