Evan Prodromou schreef: 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

On 31.01.2007 04:54, Evan Prodromou wrote: 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.