Brian Wolff wrote:
On Apr 2, 2015 2:58 PM, "Jon Robson" jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
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.
What's the actual objection? Our community (or at least a significant and very vocal portion of it) does not want gaudy share buttons for various reasons, but i dont recall anyone objecting to adding metadata to allow automatic identification of the primary image of an article.
There's related discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64811.
Whether it's Twitter, Facebook, or some future social site, MediaWiki and Wikimedia need to figure out what a reasonable level of support that we're willing to offer each of these services looks like, in my opinion.
MZMcBride