New subject: Structured data: use of schema.org's structured data for Wikisource works (or similar)

7 Dec 2014


      Dear Wikitech (cc'd Wikisource)
A recent discussion in English Wikisource's Scriptorium was querying
why commercial book companies, etc. were getting higher search hits,
especially where they may just have summary information, rather than
full text. In that discussion someone pointed to some of the webmaster
information at Google, eg. [1], which (ultimately) talks about their
microformat (preferred) or JSON-LD as a means to put in more
particular metadata as explained at schema.org (for creative works
[2])
I went to play, and ultimately failed, and was pointed to the
inability to <script> for security reasons, and the inability to add
micodata (<cite user="bawolff">microdata attributes are implemented in
MediaWiki, but currently disabled via
$wgAllowMicrodataAttributes</cite> thx).
So my naive questions to those that know these things are
1) How do we look to improve external search engine hits for the
sister sites where they are particularly pertinent to a search
[wikipedia already gets Google special treatment]
2) if the schema.org metadata is a preferred means to progress, what
is the recommended means to progress such an issue
3) presumably some of this fits into the discussion about Structured
Data discussion, and what means is there to include this into that
discussion?
Thanks for the guidance.
Regards, Billinghurst
[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/3227642?hl=en&ref_topic=322...
[2] http://www.schema.org/CreativeWork