On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Mono monomium@gmail.com wrote:
Could we add support for Twitter cards in Wikimedia projects? It wouldn't be hard to do and would would be really nice for articles, images, videos - everything linked from Wikimedia on Twitter could have a nice little preview on Twitter.
The documentation is at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards - basically it involves adding some meta tags around existing content server-side.
Looks like it would be pretty simple to do preview images for image/media File: pages. For articles, some combination of extracting a portion of text and using the PageImage extension for selecting a thumbnail image would probably do the job.
We should also double-check on appropriate goodies for Facebook and other major networks, and perhaps proper native oEmbed support.
Ah, fun. :)
-- brion