Page status & SEO link
Since the Mediawiki site containing all the public pages of Cultura italiana is both a standalone site which can be autonomously visited, and a "content management system" (CMS) for a more interactive and "streamlined" experience (as a further example this is the front-end url of this page https://culturaitaliana.org/pages/How_it_wors/Page_status_&_SEO and this is the back-end url https://culturaitaliana.org/wiki/How_it_works/Page_status_&_SEO), we have integrated the "back-end" with a way to define some property for each page, and specifically its publishing status, its language, and even some meta-data to be used for SEO ("search engine optimization") purposes.
The page properties panel can be accessed from the menu on top (see picture 1)
and is composed by two sections, the first (picture 2), where you can set the page language and its published status and the second (picture 3) where you can set some meta properties for "SEO" purposes. Of course we expect that this section is mainly used for the main page of an organization, and the checkbox "subpages" allows to "propagate" the set meta-data to all its sub-pages.
That being said, it is to note mainly the following:
- a new created page gets a "draft" (not published) status and therefore is accessible only to logged-in user affiliated to the related organization (if any) or site moderators. (So that it's fundamental that once the page can be published, you remember to update its status)
- Cultura italiana tries to detect the page language on saving, used to let visitors select pages based on their language. However, because we have set an high "index of confidence" for relying to the automated detection, that could remain empty (rather than wrong) therefore a manual setting might be required.
- the languages' select can be scrolled just typing the initial letters of the desired language on it: this is a "tip" to immediately find the desired language in the list
- the "SEO" section contains a "subset" of all the meta-data available (or just conceived) for html pages. Here is the complete list. Some of them are just inappropriate, some else are not really considered by search engines, some else might conflict with the values set for the functioning of the underlying site, so as for now (end of November 2020) we keep that selection, but others might be added if there is a good reason in doing that.
- still the "SEO" section contains, among the "meta-data", a "robot" field. This is among significant properties (taken into account by search engines) and of course it might be used to avoid that a search engine index the page, if you don't want so. It's also to be noted that all the meta-data set are immediately used both on the back-end and on the fron-end.
