SEO description template automation?

[calm hill]

So I've found that link embeds have the description show up as a . if the page has an infobox or similar (see link embed below), and that using the template {{#seo=|description= ...}} to override this works, but there's a lot of content on my wiki here now and it's a hassle to manually go through all the pages. Is there a way to automate this at all with MassEditRegex or something similar, or will I have to do this manually?

[cedar ember]

You can add a #seo in your infobox. That'll do it for a bunch of pages in bulk.

[empty panther]

I was looking into thr code for this bug before

never got around to a conclusion

[opaque merlin]

fyi if you want TextExtracts to work automatically you need the article's wikitext to start with the actual text

Articles must begin with the lead paragraph for an extract to be generated. The use of any template, and/or unclosed or empty HTML element may result in no preview for the article. E.g. "<div></div>hello" will give an empty extract.

[calm hill]

So this would be by putting the extract before the infobox, then the rest after as usual?

[calm hill]

How would I go about that?

[opaque merlin]

yeah

[cedar ember]

Something like this template
https://strinova.org/wiki/Template:CharacterInfobox?action=edit
Take a look at https://strinova.org/wiki/Michele?action=info#SEO_properties to see how it turns out

{{#seo:
  |image={{ROOTPAGENAME}} Default.png
  |image_alt=Image of {{ROOTPAGENAME}}
  |description={{{Description|}}}
  |keywords={{ROOTPAGENAME}},{{translate2|{{ROOTPAGENAME}}|zh-hans}},{{translate2|{{ROOTPAGENAME}}}},Strinova,Calabi-Yau,卡拉彼丘
}}

[calm hill]

after looking at the code and experimenting a little, i'm still not quite sure how to apply this to my infobox template, if i provided a link to the character template would someone be able to help me out here?