README

Semantic Meta Tags (a.k.a. SMT) is a Semantic Mediawiki extension to enhance the meta element of a page with content generated from semantic annotations.

This extension enables to automatically extend the HTML <meta> elements of a page with content generated from selected properties to create:

• Standard meta elements (e.g meta name="keywords") as well as
• Summary card and Open Graph protocol tags (e.g meta property="og:title")

Requirements

• PHP 7.1 or later
• MediaWiki 1.31 or later
• Semantic MediaWiki 3.1 or later

Installation

The recommended way to install Semantic Meta Tags is using Composer with MediaWiki's built-in support for Composer.

Note that the required extension Semantic MediaWiki must be installed first according to the installation instructions provided for it.

Step 1

Change to the base directory of your MediaWiki installation. If you do not have a "composer.local.json" file yet, create one and add the following content to it:

{
	"require": {
		"mediawiki/semantic-meta-tags": "~3.1"
	}
}

If you already have a "composer.local.json" file add the following line to the end of the "require" section in your file:

"mediawiki/semantic-meta-tags": "~3.1"

Remember to add a comma to the end of the preceding line in this section.

Step 2

Run the following command in your shell:

php composer.phar update --no-dev

Note if you have Git installed on your system add the --prefer-source flag to the above command.

Step 3

Add the following line to the end of your "LocalSettings.php" file:

wfLoadExtension( 'SemanticMetaTags' );

Documentation

This document describes features as well as necessary settings.

Contribution and support

If you want to contribute work to the project please subscribe to the developers mailing list and have a look at the contribution guideline.

• File an issue
• Submit a pull request
• Ask a question on the mailing list

Tests

This extension provides unit and integration tests that are run by a continues integration platform but can also be executed using composer phpunit from the extension base directory.

License

GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.