Gabriel Wicke gwicke@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