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 whole is not 100% sure this is aligned with the mission. I wonder if adopting http://schema.org would be a less controversial move and help you towards your goal. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T32113 [2] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/545421 On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:35 AM, James Pearson <[email protected]> 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. I'm curious how those images get pulled - if it's taking into account >> infoboxes or such, or just the first image on the page, or what. >> > > It uses a scoring system that takes position on page, size and w:h ratio > into account. > > >> 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 Facebook, >> Twitter, various chat clients, I think several Wordpress plugins, etc. >> > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33338 > > > > -- > Best regards, > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
