[Bioc-devel] Idea for improved visibility of Bioconductor packages

[Jiří Hon]

The implementation of Open Graph protocol should solve this, at least 
for LinkedIn and Facebook. See 
https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin (at the bottom of 
the page).

Jiri Hon

Dne 29.10.2015 v 14:59 Jim Hester napsal(a):
> It seems to be pulling it from an invisible `#tooltip` div on the page.
> This happens to be the first `<p>` block on the page, which is probably why
> it is being used by linkedin.
>
> ```html
> <div class="tooltip2" id="tooltip">
>      <p>To install this package, start R and enter:</p>
> <pre>## try http:// if https:// URLs are not supported
> source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> biocLite("biobroom")</pre>
>      <p> In most cases, you don't need to download the
>      package archive at all.</p>
> </div>
> ```
>
> Probably these results could be improved by moving this tooltip block below
> the package description, or annotating it with some metadata to exclude it
> from the linkedin summary (I don't know what that would be).
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
> kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For people like me who might be a bit behind on social media, it might be
>> nice to identify where the blurb is generated from.  Is it the first
>> sentence of the description or ...?
>>
>> Best,
>> Kasper
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Andrzej Oleś <andrzej.oles at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> thank you for sharing your idea!
>>>
>>> One possibility would be to include a package icon/logo next to the
>> package
>>> name if the package provides one. This file could be saved as
>> inst/logo.png
>>> or vignettes/logo.png, e.g. see
>>> https://github.com/aoles/EBImage/blob/master/vignettes/logo.png
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Andrzej
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Thomas Lin Pedersen <
>> thomasp85 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just sat down to write a linkedIn update about my recent package and
>>>> noticed that a thumbnail styled summary was added once I put in the URL
>>> for
>>>> my package (this is probably old news - I’m not much of a social media
>>>> guy). The summary was a bit dull though, and I was wondering if it was
>>>> possible to change something on the package landing pages to spice
>> these
>>>> thumbnails up a bit, so they would appear more exciting when people
>> share
>>>> their work on Facebook/linkedIn/Twitter…
>>>>
>>>> Don’t know how much work this entail - it is definitely in the
>>>> nice-to-have rather than need-to-have pile of feature requests
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