1. Microformats and Wikipedia

2. 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. http://microformats.org/wiki/introduction Seen by some as a way of "plugging the gaps" in HTML

3. 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 ()

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

5. Geo example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr contains 52.548; -1.932

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

7. Twitter example http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/Glenn_Emersonhttp://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/702930262/pro_pic_normal.jpg

8. References and links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microf ormatshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microf ormats –WikiProject Microformats page https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106/ –Mozilla operator add-on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr –Sample page with embedded Geo microformat http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page –Microformats wiki