[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Images used on Python.org website, and Facebook

Tue Feb 26 11:02:12 CET 2013

On 26.02.2013 09:33, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:29 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:12 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:17 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 25.02.2013 16:59, Carl Karsten wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Le 25/02/2013 08:38, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit :
>>>>>>> Does someone know which aspects to tweak in order to change this ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You’d need to add special markup to your page to define the title,
>>>>>> description and image to be shown on Facebook.  It’s part of what they
>>>>>> call OpenGraph; it’s comparable to RDFa, Microformats or schema.org,
>>>> but
>>>>>> specific to Facebook, so adding such markup may be interpreted as
>>>>>> endorsement.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> http://mikeeverhart.net/facebook/use-ogp-tags-to-change-images-when-sharing-links-on-facebook/
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Whoever wants this implemented should provide something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> <head>
>>>>>     ...
>>>>>     <!-- Required OGP Tags -->
>>>>>     <meta property="og:title" content="Mike Everhart - Web Designer.
>>>>> Programmer. Geek." />
>>>>>     <meta property="og:type" content="website" />
>>>>>     <meta property="og:url" content="http://mikeeverhart.net/" />
>>>>>     <meta property="og:image"
>>>>> content="http://mikeeverhart.net/mike-everhart-facebook.png" />
>>>>>     ...
>>>>> </head>
>>>>
>>>> I just tested the image selection on Facebook. While I also see
>>>> the success story as first image, the second image is the Python
>>>> logo. The format of the logo image doesn't really fit the Facebook
>>>> or Google+, so perhaps adding an image which can be used for these
>>>> is not a bad idea.
>>>>
>>>> Does Google+ have a similar standard for defining such images ?
>>>>
>>>> We could then add both to not endorse a specific social network.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035
>>> http://schema.org/Thing or http://schema.org/SoftwareApplication
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=www.python.org&html=
>>>
>>
>> https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/snippet/
>>
> 
> To be more specific:
> 
> <!-- Update your html tag to include the itemscope and itemtype attributes.
> -->
> <html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">
> 
> <!-- Add the following three tags inside head. -->
> <meta itemprop="name" content="Python Programming Language">
> <meta itemprop="description" content="Home page for Python, an interpreted,
> interactive, extensive programming language. It provides an extraordinary
> combination of clarity and versatility, and is open source and
> comprehensively ported.">
> <meta itemprop="image" content="http://www.python.org/images/python-logo.gif
> ">

Thanks for the pointers.

Looks like supporting both Open Graph and schema.org would do the trick
for Facebook, Google+, MS and Yahoo.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1211158

We'd probably have to use http://schema.org/Organization as itemtype.

I'm not sure about adding the itemscope to the <html> tag, though...

I found the docs for the use in meta tags:
http://schema.org/docs/gs.html#advanced_missing
but no mention of using <html> as itemscope.
https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/snippet/ suggests to use the
<body> tag.

Since the meta tags would go into the header, perhaps using
the <head> tag would be more appropriate.

Is there some best practice for this documented somewhere ?

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