Brian Wolff wrote: >On Apr 2, 2015 2:58 PM, "Jon Robson" <jdlrob...@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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
