On Apr 2, 2015 2:58 PM, "Jon Robson"
<jdlrobson(a)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