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During the New Readers workshop, we learned that Wikipedia links don't display well in Whatsapp. This is also true on other websites. Apparently this is solvable by updates to metadata. I will do more research at some point, but maybe you know something and we can expand on this. @JKatzWMF says there may be an existing task for this.

Currently if you share a Wikipedia page on various social networks the article doesn't display well. To remedy this we should show an image and a description (see related task T142090) =Acceptance criteria = [] og:image meta tag is added to all pages in main namespace (probably via TextExtracts extension) [] og:image is only added if a feature flag is enabled [] Verify the description shows up in WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter shares. == Previous task description == During the New Readers workshop, we learned that Wikipedia links don't display well in Whatsapp. This is also true on other websites. Apparently this is solvable by updates to metadata. I will do more research at some point, but maybe you know something and we can expand on this. @JKatzWMF says there may be an existing task for this.

Currently if you share a Wikipedia page on various social networks the article doesn't display well. To remedy this we should show an image and a description (see related task T142090) =Acceptance criteria = [] og:image meta tag is added to all pages in main namespace (probably via TextExtracts extension) [] og:image is only added if a feature flag is enabled [] Verify the description shows up in WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter shares. == Previous task description == During the New Readers workshop, we learned that Wikipedia links don't display well in Whatsapp. This is also true on other websites. Apparently this is solvable by updates to metadata. I will do more research at some point, but maybe you know something and we can expand on this. @JKatzWMF says there may be an existing task for this.