Evan Prodromou schreef:
So, my vanity Google Alert turned up this doozie yesterday:
http://www.vecosys.com/2007/01/29/wikipedia-adopts-microformats/
Per the post, "Wikipedia has just announced that are also looking at how they can use Microformats on Wikipedia (and, more generally, in WikiMedia)?"
I can't seem to find any such announcement; my guess is that it's either a typical mixup of "Wikipedia" for "Wikia", or maybe just some blogger getting his wires crossed.
In any event, Wikitravel's had uF's for a while now, and if there really is someone working on this, I'd love to collaborate. I think uF's are pretty cool and I'd like to see them more available for MW in general.
~Evan
Hoi, This is indeed really nice stuff. What grabbed my eye was the species proposal. For OmegaWiki it would be possible to support this as we are working towards the moment where we will indeed include taxonomical data as well. The benefit OmegaWiki can provide is to include the vernacular name for the same species ie dog Hund hond chien etc. You may notice that in our dog record, we have relations to two breeds of dog already. We can create relations to either the latest scientific name of older scientific names given a name. OmegaWiki also aims to include links to Wikipedia articles. This will allow people who need encyclopaedic information find it in the language of their choice.
This week we discussed including Latin in OmegaWiki and have a special designation for the Latin used in the taxonomy of species. This is something that we have to sort out because the Latin names used in the taxonomy are not Latin in the sense of it conforming to the rules of the Latin language, it is also not what you want to find in a Latin spell checker. It will mean that Latin names have to disappear from definitions.
Technically requesting information from OmegaWiki using the microformat as the input for a request seems feasible to me. OmegaWiki does use MediaWiki, it is MediaWiki :) . Thanks, GerardM
http://microformats.org/wiki/species http://www.omegawiki.org/DefinedMeaning:dog_%28966%29