[WikiEN-l] A proposal to simplify and improve geo markup in Wikipedia

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome at opera.com> wrote:
>> I've analyzed Wikipedia's HTML code for representing geographical
>> coordinates. The current code is verbose and does not support the Geo
>> microformat correctly. Three alternatives, differing on functionality
>> and code size, are suggested as replacements:
>>
>>  http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/geo/
>>
>> Alternative 1, which is comptible with Wikipedia's current syntax for
>> personalized presentation, reduces the number of elements from 14 to
>> 10. Alternative 2, which uses CSS generated content to achieve
>> personalized presentations, reduces the number of elments from 14 to 5
>> and the code size from 798 to 248 bytes.
>
> Have you sent this to the people who work on geocoding on Wikipedia?

Or indeed those who work on the HTML coding?

Can you tell I can't tell the difference? :-)

Carcharoth