[pydotorg-www] Fwd: python.org page descriptions

[Michael Foord]

On 10 Jan 2013, at 10:00, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> I've modified the build.py to use the title as default for keywords
> and description. Not ideal, but still better than "None".
> 
> The next site rebuild should fix the problem.
> 

Brilliant - thanks for this Marc-Andre.

Michael

> On 31.12.2012 16:29, Michael Foord wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> From: Lance E Sloan <lsloan at umich.edu>
>>> Subject: python.org page descriptions
>>> Date: 21 December 2012 14:49:54 GMT
>>> To: webmaster at python.org
>>> 
>>> Today I wanted to +1 this page on Google+:
>>> 
>>> http://www.python.org/getit/mac/
>>> 
>>> When I clicked the +1 button (using a Google+ extension for Chrome on
>>> Mac OS X), it said the description of the page was:
>>> 
>>> None
>>> 
>>> Looking at the source of the page, I see:
>>> 
>>> <meta name="description" content="None" />
>>> 
>>> You should either put descriptions on the Python website pages or
>>> remove these meta tags altogether, because this makes posts about
>>> python.org on Google+ (and probably other services) look silly.
>>> 
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May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
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