Banners are used as the illustration when shared on social media websites such as Facebook
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Social network like Facebook often show the first picture of a page as an illustration of the shared link.
Banners, due to their shape, might not be good illustrations.
Maybe there is a way to prevent the banner being used as an illustration if other images on the page fit better.

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Resolved	Jdlrobson	T101711 Banners are used as the illustration when shared on social media websites such as Facebook
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Nicolas_Raoul created this task.Jun 8 2015, 3:16 PM

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For instance my website http://CmisSync.com uses

<meta property="og:image" content="http://cmissync.com/images/og_img.png" />

to tell Facebook what image it should use for previews.

I am not sure og:image is the right thing for us, so a look at http://ogp.me/ and https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices is advised.

Lydia_Pintscher moved this task from incoming to monitoring on the Wikidata board.Jun 11 2015, 12:54 PM

We should use og:image for this.
Note this is a bigger problem outside the scope of GSoc - see bug T32113

Jdlrobson moved this task from In discussion to Backlog on the Wikidata-Page-Banner board.Jun 15 2015, 7:13 PM

Jdlrobson added a subtask: T32113: When sharing articles without images on social sites (facebook, twitter, google+) the mediawiki logo is used in lieu of site logo.Aug 30 2015, 5:03 PM

Jdlrobson renamed this task from Check how banners change the way article previews appear on social networks to Banners are used as the illustration when shared on social media websites such as Facebook.Sep 16 2015, 12:09 AM

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MBinder_WMF added a project: Readers-Web-Backlog.May 17 2016, 6:35 PM

Quiddity mentioned this in T56829: [Goal] Implement support for sharing protocols.May 30 2016, 6:00 PM

MBinder_WMF moved this task from To Triage to Triaged but Future on the Readers-Web-Backlog board.Jul 4 2016, 7:49 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Epics on the Wikidata-Page-Banner board.Nov 14 2016, 12:18 PM

Change 334789 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ladsgroup):
Add PageImage OpenGraph tag

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/334789

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 29 2017, 1:18 AM

Change 334789 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add PageImage OpenGraph tag

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/334789