RE: WikiProject Microformats

I think adding Microformats to wiki pages is an excellent
idea.

"Can" microformats be added to wiki pages?  When I
"edit" a wikipedia
page, there are no visible HTML tags to hook Microformats. 
Yet,
clearly HTML is present because when I "view" the
article I can select
View // Source and see the HTML.

"How" is a microformat added to a wiki page's
markup?

/Roger

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I've just launched "WikiProject Microformats"

    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiPr
oject_Microformats>

to discuss the use of uFs on Wikipedia (and other WikiMedia
products)

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On 29 Jan 2007, at 13:45, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> "How" is a microformat added to a wiki page's
markup?

The MediaWiki software allows you to directly type in HTML
as well as  
using the Wiki shorthand language. It also has a reusable
templating  
system, allowing you to enter data into more complex
templates in a  
key-value kind of syntax.

However, in most default installs of MediaWiki I've seen,
the ABBR  
tag is stripped out. I expect that's just a setting to be
enabled.

Ben
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In message <B8415163A689094689542C617ECA036601560947IMCSRV5.MITRE.ORG>,
"Costello, Roger L." <costellomitre.org> writes

>"Can" microformats be added to wiki pages?

Yes; they're already being used on WikiTravel, which uses
the same
MediaWiki software. See:

        <
http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Microformats>
and:
        <http
://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Listings>

And, while it may be problematic for users to type raw code
into pages
(where other, less aware, users might break it), it could
easily be
added to things like the co-ordinates which appear at the
top-right of
pages about places, e.g.:

        <http://en
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham>

for Persondata:

        <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata>

and, eventually, to add "species" markup to
Taxoboxes:

        <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Taxobox>


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In message <B8415163A689094689542C617ECA036601560947IMCSRV5.MITRE.ORG>,
"Costello, Roger L." <costellomitre.org> writes

>"Can" microformats be added to wiki pages?

Further to my last reply, timed 07:12 yesterday (which has
yet to reach
this list), a Wikipedia template has been modified to
publish a "geo"
microformat. I hope to have a live example shortly.

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