On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I didn't ask, but perhaps I could find out.
It's an interesting idea,
although to some degree it's once again postponing the necessary IMO
work of putting licenses in the database. I mean, Commons regards
correct licensing as one of the most important activities, and yet
licenses aren't a real object in the system. It's very difficult to
gather even basic information about how licenses are used on Commons.
Anyway as far as I can tell, microformats are dead. However, HTML5
microdata is on its way.
http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/
A Google employee wrote that spec, but that's not a guarantee it will
actually work with anything, or that Google Image Search has any idea he
wrote it. ;)