[uf-discuss] Geo deployed on Wikipedia.

[Ryan King]

On Apr 4, 2007, at 4:31 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:

>>> Is there an "adr template" in Wikipedia, so that the adr Microformat
>>> can be automatically injected into Wikipedia pages?
>
>> Not /yet/...
>
>>> Is there a way to create new templates?  Can we create a template  
>>> for
>>> hcard, vevent, and so forth?
>
>> That's being looked at, but the situation is extremely complex, ...
>
> I think that it might not be complex, if the scope is limited.
>
> Many wiki articles have the name of a person.  Create a wikipedia
> template that wraps the name with hCard.
>
> For example, here's a wikipedia article on Arthur Ernest Percival [1].
> His name could be wrapped in a wiki template like this:
>
> {{person-name
> |given-name=Arthur|additional-name=Ernest|family-name=Percival}}
>
> The HTML that is generated by the template could be:
>
> Arthur Ernest Percival
> <span class="hcard" style="display:none">
>      (<span class="family-name">Percival</span>,
>       <span class="given-name">Arthur</span>
>       <span class="additional-name">Ernest</span>)
> </span>

Please don't introduce hidden metadata. That's one of the things  
we're trying to avoid with microformats.

-ryan