On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Daniel Friesen
<daniel(a)nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote:
On 2015-04-02 8:44 PM, Brian Wolff wrote:
However there is clearly a desire to be able to
identify a representitive
image for an article. This need is exhibited across many websites including
reddit, facebook, google plus, etc, but also our own site as noted by the
page images extension for mobile. Its clear there are multiple parties that
want to be able to accurately extract such information progmatically from
any arbitrary website on the internet. I would argue supporting this use
case is not a Wikipedia issue, but a MediaWiki issue.
We should research which meta data scheme is the most de-facto standard for
declaring this sort of information (whether that be open graph or
schema.org
or something else) and implement it (and only 1. Implenting this 10
different ways would be silly).
Facebook exclusively supports Open Graph.
Google+ recommends
schema.org microdata and uses Open Graph.
Twitter exclusively uses their proprietary Twitter cards markup ( <meta
name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> ...) and requires you to
validate and submit your site for approval before they'll display cards.
Reddit uses embed.ly, which is supposed to support a variety of Open
Graph, oEmbed, etc...
Bing uses
schema.org and Open Graph but states that they "currently only
[use] this information to enhance the visual display of search results
of a limited number of publishers". Bing just uses everything it can,
Microdata, Microformats, RDFa, etc...
Google uses
schema.org in microdata, RDFa, and JSON-LD formats for rich
data (I'm not sure if they bother with page level metadata at all,
standard HTML title and meta description generally covers what they output).
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So my opinion would be to support Open Graph, optionally add some
schema.org,
and screw Twitter and their unwillingness to play nice with attempts to
standardize metadata.
+1 and if someone writes the patch I'll +2 it. We've been talking
about this for far too long :-)
We should also consider oEmbed where it makes sense.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://danielfriesen.name/]
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