Re: [Mediawiki-l] Why Facebook and others can't see a wiki's most important image

On 11-07-23 09:21 PM, K. Peachey wrote: Facebook scans the <img> tags on a page for images that are at least 50x50px with a max aspect ratio of 3:1. When you try to share a url for a Wikipedia article with a good set of images you'll get a selection of images to pick from. Of course an article without any images won't have any to pick from and FB will just use no image. It does trip up on some of the templates the Wikipedia community uses, some of which embed some icons at sizes slightly larger than 50x50px causing FB to include those. The logo is an embedded background-image so it doesn't show up in the scan. jidanni seams to have the opinion that the logo of a wiki is so important that a user with a text browser that can't see images would like to see something like "[site logo here]" to indicate that the site has a logo they can't even see. jidanni isn't particularly good at calmly presenting a problem in a way that would get people to see what pieces are broken and get people to chime in on ways to fix them. Rather he seams to think that insulting the people he's trying to get to change something will help, rather than cause them to simply dismiss him as a jackass and miss the few valid points of his cause counterproductively making it even less likely what he's trying to get changed will be changed. He might also want to take a look at the flash based sites out there before he tries to argue that MW which is built with a number of features to permit accessibility for screen readers and text browsers was built by people with no knowledge of how screen readers and search engines work. Looking over things. Our powered by icons and whatnot make use of <img> tags. Sadly while the background-image trick could hide them I don't believe it would work since that'll break the accessibility there since the background-image trick can't replicate the alt text, least not without having negative quirks while images are still loading. Screen reader and search engine wise the <img> would be correct here. The logo uses a background-image. It's not a static pre-bundled image like the powered by icons. In this case, I believe that the function of using the background-image rather than an <img> with an alt or an empty alt="" is to prevent overly large logos (we don't have a standard logo size, and the sizes that skins use actually vary) from overflowing out of the logo area and obscuring the page content. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l