On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:35 AM, James Pearson <ja...@reddit.com> wrote:
> While writing this, I recalled that the Wikipedia Android app displays > thumbnails in its search results. I think that's pulling from OpenSearch > with the PageImages extension[2]? but I haven't really delved into that > yet. I'm curious how those images get pulled - if it's taking into account > infoboxes or such, or just the first image on the page, or what. > It uses a scoring system that takes position on page, size and w:h ratio into account. > Would it be feasible to include an og:image tag on pages for which we have > a reasonable guess as to the thumbnail? Open Graph[3] is supported by what > seems anecdotally to me to be a wide range of services, so good hints there > would improve thumbnails for links on not just reddit, but Facebook, > Twitter, various chat clients, I think several Wordpress plugins, etc. > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33338 -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
