mediawiki-mark-up-issues

MediaWiki mark-up issues

Issues with adding microformat mark-up to sites using MediaWiki (such as this wiki, and Wikipedia).

If you know of a solution, or work-around, please post it!

Author

Andy Mabbett

URLs

• Wiki mark-up such as [http://example.com sample text] (which displays as sample text) cannot have a class="url" added to the output "A" element.
  • Workaround (if display of the URL is acceptable): use <span class="url">http://example.com</span> (which displays as http://example.com)
  • Workaround (if display of the URL is not acceptable): ???

Rel

• Similarly, MediaWiki does not appear to support the use of the rel attribute on internal or external links.

Tables

• In the following code snippet (from an "infobox" table with an included hCard):

{| class="infobox vcard" 
| class="fn org" | '''{{{name}}}'''
|-
{{#if: {{{address|}}} |
! Address
{{!}} <span class="street-address">{{{address}}}}}</span>
|-
{{#if:{{{city|}}} |
! City
{{!}} <span class="locality">{{{city|}}}}}</span>
|-
{{#if:{{{country|}}} |
! Country
{{!}} <span class="country-name">{{{country|}}}}}</span>
|-
{{#if:{{{latitude|}}} |
!
{{!}} <{{Coord|{{{latitude}}}|{{{longitude}}}|display=title}} }}
|}

there is nowhere to hang the required class="adr", such that it wraps the three relevant table rows, and no others.

Abbr

• MediaWiki does not appear to support the use of the abbr element.

XMDP

As with many CMSs, there is no facility for an editor to add an XMDP URI to (or in any other way to alter) the head element.