Hi,
It seems that Facebook is not handling properly links from our image description pages. Normally, if one would share http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mostar_Old_Town_Panorama_2007.jpg(tod... picture of the day) on Facebook, they would expect their post to have a picture and hopefully some snippet from the image description. Unfortunately, one gets a dry link without any pictures or relevant text.
Sharing Commons URLs not ending in a file extension (e.g. the main page) results in a nice post with a picture taken from the given page.
As far as I can see Google Buzz exhibits the same problem, but given that we have a special relationship with Facebook -- if others can replicate the problem -- we should contact them about this: I'd like to share the picture of the day every now and then and have my friends marvel on the picture without having to click through the link.
Best regards, Bence Damokos
Hi,
Le lundi 24 mai 2010 06:01:55, Bence Damokos a écrit :
It seems that Facebook is not handling properly links from our image description pages. Normally, if one would share http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mostar_Old_Town_Panorama_2007.jpg(to day's picture of the day) on Facebook, they would expect their post to have a picture and hopefully some snippet from the image description. Unfortunately, one gets a dry link without any pictures or relevant text.
This was reported on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Usability_issues_and_ideas/Archive...
The reason offered to explain this issue was: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=416 → Bugs and known problems → I don’t have a preview for my link.
I haven't investigated in details, but it may be fixable on our end.
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
This was reported on
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Usability_issues_and_ideas/Archive...
The reason offered to explain this issue was: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=416 → Bugs and known problems → I don’t have a preview for my link.
I haven't investigated in details, but it may be fixable on our end.
Commons pages are indeed missing those three recommended meta tags, but I am not entirely sure that providing them would solve the problem (it's worth a try though).
Thanks, Bence
Bence Damokos wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Guillaume Paumier
This was reported on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Usability_issues_and_ideas/Archive_1 The reason offered to explain this issue was: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=416 → Bugs and known problems → I don’t have a preview for my link. I haven't investigated in details, but it may be fixable on our end.Commons pages are indeed missing those three recommended meta tags, but I am not entirely sure that providing them would solve the problem (it's worth a try though).
Thanks, Bence
That doesn't explain why other commons pages show a preview.