He has a got a point. It could be nice to be able to include that
stuff in the META headers, by having the geolinks templates ( such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Coordinates_templates ) include
some wikitext like "{{GEOHEADER|long=151.21459|lat=-33.87531}}", where
"GEOHEADER" was a magic wiki word, that did a "-01234567890." sanity
check on the args (like RFC, ISBN, and PMID), and if it checked out
included the appropriate headers.
However, some devil's advocate questions come to mind:
* How used are these headers, really? Is it a niche thing?
* If it's niche thing currently, then why? Is the reason because it's
useless / a-solution-in-search-of-a-problem, or is it a niche thing
because nobody has put up a large corpus of useful data that uses it
yet?
* Are there standards that cover this stuff? Have those standards been
ratified / broadly agreed up / standardized / progressed beyond draft
status / reached consensus by some independent group / body /
organisation?
* Which of the format or formats are we talking about? For example,
from
http://webtips.dan.info/titles.html , I see there are things like
this:
<META name="geo.position" content="26.367559;-80.12172">
<META name="geo.region" content="US-FL">
<META name="geo.placename" content="Boca Raton, FL">
<META name="ICBM" content="26.367559, -80.12172">
( see
http://geotags.com/geo/geotags2.html and
http://geourl.org/add.html ; seems also to be some info about Flickr
tags on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoTagging about using yet
another method)
* Would it be just "ICBM" we're taking about, or just
"geo.position",
or both? Because they seem to be doing exactly the same thing.
* What about "geo.region", and "geo.placename"?
All the best,
Nick.
This code only tells MediaWiki to embed the contents
of
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mapit-AUS-suburbscale> into the
article. Right now, no template is able to modify anything within the
<head> tag, which is where any <meta> tag would reside. It might be
possible to use sitewide JavaScript to do it, but then that wouldn't be
useful for search engines.
Neil Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> An increasing number of wiki pages use the
>
> {{Mapit-AUS-suburbscale|long=151.21459|lat=-33.87531}}
>
> Type notation to indicate the page relates to a specific location.
>
> Where would I go to request that this information is also embedded into a
> meta tag for the page e.g.
> <meta name="ICBM" content="-33.87531,151.21459" />
>
> So capable browsers/search engines can use this information more
> semantically ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil