Microformats and Wikipedia

Microformats defined Microformats are a way of adding simple markup to human-readable data items such as events, contact details or locations, on web pages, so that the information in them can be extracted by software and indexed, searched for, saved, cross-referenced or combined. Seen by some as a way of "plugging the gaps" in HTML

Microformats in use on Wikipedia Adr (address information ) hAudio (information about audio recordings ) hCalendars (calendaring and events format ) hCards (people, companies, organizations, and places ) Geo (geographic coordinates) hMedia (publishing Images Video and Audio ) hProduct (product data ) hRecipe (self-explanatory) Species ()

Operator add-on Operator (Mozilla) add-on looks for and provide functions for –hCard –hCalendar –Geo –Tag –xFolk –RDF

Geo example contains ;

Tagspaces example for-hcalendar-and-hrecipe-rich-snippetshttp://microformats.org/2010/04/28/google-adds-support- for-hcalendar-and-hrecipe-rich-snippets rich snippets

Twitter example

References and links ormatshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microf ormats –WikiProject Microformats page –Mozilla operator add-on page –Sample page with embedded Geo microformat –Microformats wiki