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Bug 66325 - Consider adding some "keywords" to the meta description tag
Consider adding some "keywords" to the meta description tag
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
CirrusSearch (Other open bugs)
master
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_el...
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Reported: 2014-06-07 16:14 UTC by Nemo
Modified: 2014-06-07 16:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Nemo 2014-06-07 16:14:29 UTC 
According to URL, the meta element's "description" tag is still actively used by search engines a bit.

Keeping in mind bug 12196 and bug 19761, given bug 66045 I suspect that CirrusSearch / ElasticSearch may be able to come up with some decent 155 characters description worth adding to the <head> of pages.

If there were concerns about performance or about adding some 200 bytes to the HTML of pages, this would need to be disabled by default. With current information about the "description" tag it's certainly low priority anyway, but may be fun for someone.
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