Gabriel Wicke <gwicke(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I think it would be cool if an extension was
created which would allow
> everyone to specify what units they prefer, and the values in articles
> would be converted automatically based on preference.
Whatever you do, make it client-side. It would be
great to expose type
information with an attribute in HTML, so that it can be used for
client-side unit conversions. Ideally the typed information comes
directly from wikidata (and can be fed to nice table/pie chart/whatever
widgets), but it should also not be too hard to mark up data that lives
on the wiki the same way.
There's also
http://microformats.org/wiki/measure for a more
standardized solution that could work on other websites as
well.
Tim