Wikivoyage:Microformats
Microformats are a loose group of standards for adding simple markup to human-readable data items such as events, contact details or locations. The information in web pages that follow the standards can be extracted by software and indexed, searched for, saved, cross-referenced or combined. More technically, they are items of semantic markup, using just standard (X)HTML with a set of common class-names. They are open and available, freely, for anyone to use.
Since microformats depend on particular (X)HTML elements and attributes, it's not - yet - possible to implement them in basic Wiki syntax. However, some of our MediaWiki extensions do or will support microformats for output.
hCard
[edit]hCard is used to mark up contact details for people, organizations or venues (i.e hotels, shops, pubs, museums, etc.). and can be extracted as a vCard. The new Project:Listings implement hCard. For examples, see Birmingham (England), Cincinnati or Singapore/Sentosa.
rel-license
[edit]The rel-licence microformat is already used on every page on Wikivoyage.
Future
[edit]- Project:Listings will support rel-tag for tagging listings
- Project:Geocoding will support geo for lat-long data for destinations.
- Project:Listings will support geo for lat-long data for individual attractions
If you have suggestions for other ways to implement microformats on Wikivoyage, please discuss on the Talk page.
See also
[edit]- http://microformats.org/ -- Home of microformats on the Web
- Wikipedia's Project Microformats
- Project:Listings
- {{listing}}