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
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WTF?
This isn't us...Jimmy and the Wikia people will need to answer what's up.
/me is not surprised by anything in the press anymore. :(
On 1/30/07, Evan Prodromou evan@prodromou.name wrote:
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
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On 31/01/07, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:
This isn't us...Jimmy and the Wikia people will need to answer what's up.
Bloody Wikians.
Rob Church
On 1/31/07, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:
WTF?
This isn't us...
Perhaps it is...
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/English_Wikipedia_ta...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow says nofollow "has come to be regarded as a microformat."
Wikia hasn't announced anything remotely related to microformats.
Angela
On 1/31/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps it is... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/English_Wikipedia_ta...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow says nofollow "has come to be regarded as a microformat."
Wikia hasn't announced anything remotely related to microformats.
Narr... Thats twisted.. and even given that logic, it's still not right. We've used nofollow just about everywhere except the enwiki main namespace for a long time.
Oh well.
On 1/31/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/31/07, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:
WTF?
This isn't us...
Perhaps it is...
I have another theory. They're perceiving the creation of a page by a repeatedly blocked user as an official announcement... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats was made a couple of days ago and includes the same wording as the post on vecosys.
Angela
On 31/01/07, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
I have another theory. They're perceiving the creation of a page by a repeatedly blocked user as an official announcement... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats was made a couple of days ago and includes the same wording as the post on vecosys.
Well. It's a good thing the press is officially a Reliable Source!
- d.
On Wed, 2007-31-01 at 06:06 +0000, Angela wrote:
I have another theory. They're perceiving the creation of a page by a repeatedly blocked user as an official announcement... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats was made a couple of days ago and includes the same wording as the post on vecosys.
Wow! Great detective work. That has _got_ to be it.
It's probably wishful thinking on the part of the blogger. I haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere, so it seems like no-harm no-foul.
Anyways, it's been a good instigation to get more general microformats support out in either an extension or as an optional part of core. We've been using uF's on Wikitravel for a while, and I know that Wikevent has a lot of them going, too.
~Evan
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
Evan Prodromou wrote:
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.
That would be me. But of course you knew that. ;)
-mark
On 31.01.2007 04:54, Evan Prodromou wrote:
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)?"
As a side note, Wikipedia user Omegatron added support for COinS tags to the template cite book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Cite_book#COinS_tags_for_machine-... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COinS
I'm not sure if this qualifies as a microformat. Firefox plugin zotero can pick-up book data thanks to this.
Moving support for something like cite book into MediaWiki might be interesting, as the current template using parser functions is seen as a hack by some wikipedians ("ridiculously complex", etc) and impossible to understand by the so called "average" wikipedian.
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