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): ???
    • Why not just use <span class="url">[http://example.com sample text]</span>? --Tgr^{talk / home} 06:16, 9 Aug 2007 (PDT)
      • Returns a value of "sample text" Andy Mabbett 02:12, 10 Aug 2007 (PDT)

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.

you can give a row a class (or any other valid HTML attribute) with {{!}} class="adr" {{!}} <span... --Tgr^{talk / home} 06:16, 9 Aug 2007 (PDT)

Abbr

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

Dtend

• The work-around for date-time pattern on Wikipedia (for example, birthdays in hCard) has been to use templates to output something like:

24 February 1993 (<span class="bday" style="display:none">1993-02-24</span>)

which degrades gracefully if CSS is not available. It is not acceptable to do so, to show the date advanced by one day for end-dates in hCalendar.

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.