Extension:TwitterCards
 Release status: experimental |
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| Implementation | Parser extension, User interface |
| Description | Adds meta tags to enable Twitter cards on MediaWiki. |
| Author(s) | Harsh Kothari and Kunal Mehta |
| Latest version | 0.2 (2017-10-30) |
| MediaWiki | 1.23+ |
| PHP | 5.3+ |
| Database changes | No |
| License | GNU General Public License 2.0 or later |
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| Quarterly downloads | 2 (Ranked 138th) |
| Public wikis using | 5,686 (Ranked 55th) |
| Translate the TwitterCards extension if it is available at translatewiki.net | |
| Issues | Open tasks · Report a bug |
The TwitterCards extension adds meta tags to enable Twitter cards on MediaWiki. It requires that the TextExtracts extension is installed.
About Twitter cards
[edit]Twitter describes this feature like this:
“Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content. Simply add a few lines of HTML to your webpages, and users who Tweet links to your content will have a "card" added to the Tweet that’s visible to all of their followers. It would be really nice for articles, images, videos - everything linked from Wikimedia on Twitter could have a nice little preview on Twitter. The documentation is at Twitter cards - basically it involves adding some meta tags around existing content server-side.”
Installation
[edit]- Download and move the extracted
TwitterCardsfolder to yourextensions/directory.
Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/TwitterCards - Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
wfLoadExtension( 'TwitterCards' );
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
