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It can sometimes help automated processes to have a description of a page. We can show these descriptions in, say, the "description" meta tag for an HTML page, or in other metadata for other media.

[edit] Representation

The Dublin Core "description" element clearly fits the bill here.

[edit] Examples

For Toronto, we might have:

 <> dc:description "A travel guide to Toronto, Canada's largest city, including hotels, restaurants, and neighborhoods." .
 

[edit] Templates

The Template:Description can be used to add a description.

{{description|A travel guide to Toronto, Canada's largest city, including hotels, restaurants, and neighborhoods.}}

[edit] Other notes

• If no description element is used, a stock description based on the template at MediaWiki:travelguidedescription is used. If the article isn't a travel guide, the first text paragraph from an article is used as the HTML description.