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A lot can be done to help advocate the use of microformats. Often, simply by taking an existing site, and adding the suggested microformatting to a few of its pages as examples is all that is necessary to help the developers of the site add the microformats to the site itself. Applications, such as browsers, could also use some guidance on how to best support microformats.
A lot can be done to help advocate the use of microformats. Often, simply by taking an existing site, and adding the suggested microformatting to a few of its pages as examples is all that is necessary to help the developers of the site add the microformats to the site itself. Applications, such as browsers, could also use some guidance on how to best support microformats.


Sometimes advocacy requires comparison and analysis of alternative technologies or approaches.  As [[User:MikeSchinkel|MikeSchinkel]] pointed out, we need good answers to comments like "No, we're going to use XXX instead...".
Sometimes advocacy requires comparison and analysis of alternative technologies or approaches.  As [[User:MikeSchinkel|Mike Schinkel]] pointed out, we need good answers to comments like "No, we're going to use XYZ instead...".


The goal for this page is to include pointers for how to advocate microformats on new sites and on existing sites that are considering or using alternative approaches, as well as applications that can benefit from supporting microformats.
The goal for this page is to include pointers for how to advocate microformats on new sites and on existing sites that are considering or using alternative approaches, as well as applications that can benefit from supporting microformats.
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For general resources for marketing microformats, see [[spread-microformats]].
For general resources for marketing microformats, see [[spread-microformats]].


== Adding Microformats to Existing Sites ==
== Adding microformats to Existing Sites ==
Add sites here that you think would benefit from the addition of microformats. For now they are grouped by the microformat which would primarily benefit the site. Feel free to take a look at some of the sites on this list, document sample pages to be microformatted, add microformats to them, and then add the before/after of the key sections of mark-up to another wiki page for that site.


Add sites here that you think would benefit from the addition of microformats. For now they are grouped by the microformat which would primarily benefit the site (so that folks who feel they are good at adding a particular microformat.  Feel free to take a look at some of the sites on this list, document sample pages to be microformatted, add microformats to them, and then add the before/after of the key sections of markup to another wiki page for that site.
Successes are also noted; the most recent are flagged as {{SuccessMarker}}.


=== hCard ===
If your successes resulted from emails that you sent to site owners/developers, please consider sharing your successful advocacy emails on the [[advocacy-email-samples]] page, and along with each email sample, list the sites which responded positively to your email.  This way others in the community can learn from your success and hopefully use your email samples to contact additional sites and get them to adopt microformats.
Adding [[hcard|hCard]] to these sites would make them quite handy for their users and for being indexed:


==== Online Profiles ====
=== organization ===
Nearly every website that has a login has a page representing the public profile of the user that other users can see and interact with.  Many such sites already [[hcard-implementations|support hCard]] (e.g. ClaimID.com, Flickr.com, Technorati.com, Zooomr.com). Here are some that I think would benefit from the addition of hCard to their profile / user pages. Feel free to add more such sites that have a social network profile-like component and I'll see what I can do. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)
For now this section is organized primarily by microformat, as that's easier for the community to document and keep track of.
* Twitter.com - working on it [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Consumating.com - working on it [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)


==== Online Venues ====
However, it may be more useful to publishers if we created another section organized by type of site.
There are many sites that offer pages that represent organizations and venues that could benefit from being marked up with hCard. [http://local.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Local] venues are marked up with hCards for example.  Here are some more sites that have venues that would benefit from hCard markup.
* [http://dodgeball.com/ Dodgeball] venues.
* Yelp.com


====Wikpedia hCard====
E.g.:
*Infobox Templates for people to add [[hcard|hCard]] to their generated markup
* [[education]] - how to add microformats to education sites, especially higher education sites.
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_Biography&action=edit Infobox_Biography]
* [[social networks]] - how to add microformats to social networks, especially for [[social-network-portability]].
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_actor&action=edit Infobox_actor] which should result in actor pages, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart Humphrey Bogart]'s page, being properly hCarded.
*Addressable buildings e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Crown%2C_Birmingham The Old Crown, Birmingham]
*Tourist attractions, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury_World Cadbury World]
*Companies, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco Tesco] (note headquarters address in infobox)
*Motorway service stations, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford_Gap_service_station Watford Gap]
*Railway Stations, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Barr_railway_station Perry Barr]
*etc.


====Telephone Directory Listings====
etc.
Telephone Directory Listings could usefully apply hCard to their results pages. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 03:10, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)


e.g. (please add other examples!):
== by microformat ==
*[http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/ BT]
<!-- spans with ids for preserving previous heading fragment id references -->
**Requested via [http://tinyurl.com/yhtdjy BT feedback form], 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* <span id="hCard">[[hcard-advocacy]]</span>
*[http://118118.com 118118.com]
** <span id="Geo">[[geo-advocacy]]</span>
**Requested via e-mail, 2006-11-13. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** <span id="Adr">[[adr-advocacy]]</span>
* <span id="hCalendar"> [[hcalendar-advocacy]]</span>
* <span id="hReview">[[hreview-advocacy]]</span>
* <span id="hAtom">[[hatom-advocacy]]</span>
* <span id="rel-tag">[[rel-tag-advocacy]]</span>
* <span id="VoteLinks">[[vote-links-advocacy]]</span>
* <span id="XFN">[[xfn-advocacy]]</span>


====Postal (ZIP) code Finders====
=== h-entry ===
Postal code Finders could usefully apply hCard to their results pages. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 12:09, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)
* '''pump.io''' - add h-entry + h-card support to pump.io's web view:
** https://github.com/e14n/pump.io


e.g. (please add other examples!):
== browsers ==
*[http://pol.royalmail.com/dda/txt/pf.asp Royal Mail] (UK)
[[Browser]] support of microformats, both built-in, and via plug-ins and extension helps users make better use of the numerous existing sites that have microformats support, as well as encourage sites and site developers to add microformats support.
**Requested via [http://tinyurl.com/ya4hzu Royal Mail feedback form], 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]


====Government hCard====
See [[browser-advocacy]].
=====UK Gov. hCard=====
* Parliament: [http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alms.cfm Alphabetical List of Members of Parliament] (see also [http://www.parliament.uk/directories/directories.cfm other lists of MPs and Lords]). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]


=====Europe Gov. hCard=====
== publishing tools ==
* e.g. [http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/westmidlands.asp UK MEPs]
Getting publishing tools adopt microformats will perhaps have the biggest impact on expanding the adoption and support of microformats.
See [[cms]] for current publishing platform support.
* [[cms-advocacy]]
* [[blogging-tools-advocacy]]
Others:
* postlets.com - which crossposs to craigslist.com and other classifieds services. If they generated span+a microformats (which apparently survive posting into Craigstlist posting), the posters could get postings in hCard without any additional work.
** check oodle.com also.


==== Organization Contacts ====
== web agencies ==
Many companies and organizations have about or contact pages that could benefit from being marked up with hCard.  [http://technorati.com/about/contact.html Technorati's contact page] for example is both marked up with hCard and has a convenient "Add to Address Book" hCard to vCard converter link.  The following company sites could benefit from similar markup (and, until user agents support hCards natively, "Add to Address Book" links). [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)
More and more [[web-agencies]] are supporting microformats both on their own sites and on sites they build.  
*Google contacts
**e.g. [http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/index.html Google USA], [http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/contact/index.html Google UK], etc.
* [http://www.w3.org/People/all W3C Staff listing] and individual pages, e.g. [http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ Tim Berners-Lee]
**Requested by e-mail. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*Opera People, (e.g. [http://people.opera.com/howcome/ Håkon Wium Lie]; could also be hResume)


====Other hCard====
Getting more web design, development, etc. agencies and related efforts to adopt microformats also has the indirect benefit of them supporting microformats in the sites they build and develop.
* [http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Movie Database] (IMDb) for people (real, not characters), e.g. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/ Humphrey Bogart]. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:49, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*Wikitravel
**e.g. [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel - Birmingham]
***[http://microformats.org/wiki?title=User_talk:MarkJaroski&curid=2699&diff=0&oldid=10663&rcid=19955 Wikitravel is about to hugely roll out hCard] Mark Jaroski
***See also [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Microformats Wikitravel:Microformats]


===hCalendar===
If you are a strong and vocal supporter of microformats in your work, please feel free to add yourself to the
* [[web-agencies]] page


[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:
== online tutorials ==
Add [[microformats2]] to topical online tutorials, especially if they already have classic microformats examples that can be updated.


==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5125856/should-i-use-meta-name-author-content-your-name-or-link-rel-author-hr
* DanC offers a 150 point bounty to anybody who takes [http://www.w3.org/2006/05/w3c-track the W3C track at WWW2006] and adds hCalendar markup and sends it to connolly@w3.org,www-archive@w3.org
** has [[hCard]] example that should be updated to [[h-card]]


====Television listings====
== multiple microformats ==
*A major coup would be to get one of the major players (the BBC, Sky, or PBS, say), to mark up their TV or radio listings with hCalendar - does anyone have contacts in such an organisation? [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:53, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
<span id="Various">In general add such sites to the page for the primary microformat which would benefit from the sites' support. See above.</span>
**Does anyone have URLs to the TV or radio listings of the major players? Getting those URLs would be the next step, and then doing the markup ourselves would be the next step after that. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 13:02, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)


e.g. (please add other examples!):
== successes ==
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
=== Magnolia ===
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
[http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] supports many microformats. These should all be incorporated into the [[examples-in-the-wild]] pages for each specific microformat.
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
* [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* {{SuccessMarker}} [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] is implementing semantic features and microformats quickly. Here's a screenshot of my ma.gnolia page, and the Firefox [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106 Operator extension]'s response to its code. Shiny. :) --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 10:30, 1 Sep 2007 (PDT)<br />
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296152892/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1296152892_20108bd860_d.jpg] (click for larger version)
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* {{SuccessMarker}} added a [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Category:Microformats microformats category] to the ma.gnolia wiki, with information, and then added it to appropriate pages --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 10:37, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)


====Government hCalendar====
=== OpenStreetMap ===
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
* I've just added Geo to OpenStreetMap documentation pages - see [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Birmingham Birmingham page on OpenStreetMap] for example. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:39, 6 Apr 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] uses the geo microformat on its wiki for place pages (added by [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Pigsonthewing Andy Mabbett]) and also on the GPS trace pages and diary entry pages ([http://www.dankarran.com/blog/archives/2007/09/04/pinpoint_your_openstreetmap_diary_entries.php added] by [http://www.dankarran.com Dan Karran]).
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
***Response: "At the moment we have no plans to use hCalendar or hCard coding due to unresolved concerns about accessibility issues (especially text-to-speech readers), however, we thank you for your suggestion."
*[http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ E-petitions] (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:47, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:07, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)
*[http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/01/bankholidays Scottish Executive Bank Holidays]
** Requested by [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/HaveYourSay/WebsiteFdbck Scottish Executive feedback form], 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]


====Sports Fixtures====
=== Wikipedia ===
e.g. (please add other examples!):
For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].
*PremiumTV (UK, Soccer, has a page for each team)
**[http://www.avfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Fixtures/ Aston Villa]
**[http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Fixtures/ West Bromwich Albion]
*** Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
****"webmaster@" bounced. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]


====Concert/ Theatre Listings====
See also the individual microformats advocacy pages for specific microformat successes.
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list


=== hReview ===
Specifics:
[[hreview|hReview]] could be used on these sites:


====Government hReview====
Geo on Wikipedia:
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*Wikipedia-IT now has Geo on all  [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:PuntanoQui/Template:Coord pages using the ''coord'' template], e.g. [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messina Messina]. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:05, 26 May 2007 (PDT)
*[http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ E-petitions] (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
*I've added geo to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Location_dec_US all images tagged in Wikimedia Commons] using decimal values. Example: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Montreal_City_Hall_Jan_2006.jpg Montreal City Hall, Jan 2006]  [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 08:54, 12 Apr 2007 (PDT)
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
**Now on pages tagged in D-M-S also.
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Wikipedia-NL now has Geo on all its map-links pages, e.g. [http://www.nsesoftware.nl/wiki/maps.asp?params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB&src=Birmingham_%28Engeland%29 maps for Wikipedia-NL article on Birmingham]
**Called from '''87,724''' article pages as of 2006-04-09; reportedly the sixth most popular website in the Netherlands [http://www.multiscope.nl/organisatie/nieuws/sberichten/nederlandse-wikipedia-groeit-als-kool.html].
* I recently added Geo to Wikipedia-DE's map link pages  e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?language=de&params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB maps for Wikipedia-DE article on Birmingham]. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 14:27, 9 Apr 2007 (PDT)


====Other hReview====
* I've [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AGeoTemplate&diff=119003866&oldid=118216477 just added] Geo to Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate GeoTemplate] which is called by '''many thousands''' of other Wikipedia pages. Example: the coordinates (top right) in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr] link to [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.54833_N_1.93212_W_region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(SP047945)]; the latter now has a Geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 03:38, 30 Mar 2007 (PDT)
* [http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Movie Database] (IMDb) for film reviews, e.g. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049291/ The Harder They Fall ]. [[User:AndyMabbett|AndyMabbett]] 02:49, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)
** [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kolossos/wp-world/imageworld-art.php Map showing global distribution of Geo-tagged Wikipedia articles].
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]


===hAtom===
== old ==
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:
These sites have shown no activity for 6 months or more and thus are perhaps not worth the effort.
 
*<span id="ClearForest">[http://sws.clearforest.com/ ClearForest Semantic Web Services ]</span> - uses natural language processing tools to recognise people, organisations, places, events and CVs (resumes) in web pages. Would benefit from recognising hCard, hResume, hCalendar, Geo, Adr, etc. Could also use them in its output.
====Government hAtom====
=====UK Gov.  hAtom=====
*[http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ E-petitions] (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:49, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:07, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)
 
====Other hAtom====
* TV Listings (see hCalendar, above)
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki *MediaWiki] (Wikipedia and other users, including this 'Wiki') - article histories
**[http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7913 Bug 7913] raised 2006-11-13. '''[http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/votes.cgi?action=show_user&bug_id=7913 vote to add hAtom to the change log of media wiki pages]''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
 
=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Wikipedia
**All articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham Wikipedia - Birmingham] (note co-ordinates already present in infobox)
 
===rel-tag===
====Google as rel-tag namespace====
A Google search for 'sparrow' resolves to http://www.google.com/search?&q=sparrow, if not the unwieldy http://www.google.com/search?hs=TUz&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=sparrow&btnG=Search - likewise http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22black+redstart%22 for ' "black redstart" '. If Google can be persuaded to also accept, say, '''<nowiki>http://www.google.com/search/sparrow</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>http://www.google.com/search/black_redstart</nowiki>''' as being equivalent (and assuming that the latter term searches for ' "black redstart" ', with the quote marks), then Google would become a namespace for rel-tag. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 00:15, 29 Nov 2006 (PST)
 
There is a workaround:
*One word - http://www.google.com/search?q=/sun
*Multi-word - http://www.google.com/search?q=/rain_cloud (with an underscore)
[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:56, 30 Nov 2006 (PST)
 
===Various===
*eBay  (.com and localised versions))
** '''hCard''' - Buyer and seller address details.
** '''hCalendar''' - Auction end date/times.
** '''hReview''' - Feedback.
** '''hAtom''' - Recent purchases/ won/ lost/ watching etc.
**Requested by feedback form, 2006-12-05. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
 
====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having uFs used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have uFs used, and uF tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The register] (UK)
*[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
* ...
 
== Adding Microformats to Applications ==
 
User-agents (browsers, etc.) should support microformats natively. For instance, a user should not need to use a third party application or web service to add address details or events from a microformat-using web page to their address book or calendar programme.
 
===Firefox===
==== Firefox developments ====
 
*Mozilla are "brainstorming" developments for Firefox 3.0 and beyond, and have a page on microformat handling at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Microformat_Handling
 
====ReminderFox====
*The makers of the [http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/ ReminderFox] extension have put hCalendar support on their [http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/userrequests.html RemnderFox "to do" list].
 
===Opera===
* First reference to "microformats" in the [http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=169975&t=1166045417&page=1#comment1851680 Opera forums]. 2006-12-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.operamini.com/ Opera Mini] (and other browsers on telephones) could especially benefit from recognising the "tel" attributes of hCard, and allowing users to dial numbers found on-line.
**[http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=169978 Proposed on forum] 2006-12-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
 
===Screenreaders===
*Screenreaders (e.g [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp Jaws]) could recognise telephone number components of hCards, to differentiate them from other strings of digits. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:02, 9 Dec 2006 (PST)
** Addtional to this, I believe that screen reader users would benefit from being able to recognise any of the microformats.  For example, there is value in being verbally notified that a page contains "1 contact and 3 events", or being able to seek out rel attributes with help values. [[User:Phae|Frances Berriman]]
 
== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==
===ClearForest===
*[http://sws.clearforest.com/ ClearForest Semantic Web Services ] - uses natural language processing tools to recognise people, organisations, places, events and CVs (resumes) in web pages. Would benefit from recognising hCard, hResume, hCalendar, Geo, Adr, etc. Could also use them in its output. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 05:09, 6 Dec 2006 (PST)
 
== Successes ==
 
=== hCard Successes ===
 
*Details of hCard should be added to the [http://www.imc.org/pdi/ Internet Mail Consortium's vCard page]
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-24 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**'''Success''' achieved 2006-11-25. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
 
=== hCalendar Successes===
 
*Details of hCalendar should be added to the [http://www.imc.org/pdi/ Internet Mail Consortium's vCalendar page]
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-24 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**'''Success''' achieved 2006-11-27. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
 
===Geo Successes===
*Wikitravel
**All articles on places, e.g. [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel guide to Birmingham, England]
**See also [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Microformats Wikitravel:Microformats]
** '''Success''' achieved 2006-12-13, per [http://wikitravel.org/shared/Tech:Add_SpecialMap_using_Mapstraction_link_for_geo-tagged_pages_and_for_single_listings] see, for example, [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel guide to Birmingham, England] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
 
== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==
 
=== CalDAV ===
 
====Brian Suda====
The other great thing about exposing your data as microformats, is that the data becomes Open Data. Will the general public have access to the CalDAV? (probably not) and even if they did, it will probably only serve-up .ics files... what if i don't want ICS? i need to then hack that around to get it into the format that i want... if the data were in the HTML to begin with, then i could EASILY convert that to any format i wanted. Also, sites like http://pingerati.net/ will happily take in hCalendar data and aggregate it, make your data more valuable and easily slurped up by other providers - i don't see that happening as easily with a CalDAV.
 
====Kevin Marks====
With respect to CalDAV: I spoke to the CalDAV chaps at Apple about this, they have hCalendar support as a ticket in their db:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19


== See Also ==
== See Also ==

Latest revision as of 16:20, 18 July 2020


A lot can be done to help advocate the use of microformats. Often, simply by taking an existing site, and adding the suggested microformatting to a few of its pages as examples is all that is necessary to help the developers of the site add the microformats to the site itself. Applications, such as browsers, could also use some guidance on how to best support microformats.

Sometimes advocacy requires comparison and analysis of alternative technologies or approaches. As Mike Schinkel pointed out, we need good answers to comments like "No, we're going to use XYZ instead...".

The goal for this page is to include pointers for how to advocate microformats on new sites and on existing sites that are considering or using alternative approaches, as well as applications that can benefit from supporting microformats.

For general resources for marketing microformats, see spread-microformats.

Adding microformats to Existing Sites

Add sites here that you think would benefit from the addition of microformats. For now they are grouped by the microformat which would primarily benefit the site. Feel free to take a look at some of the sites on this list, document sample pages to be microformatted, add microformats to them, and then add the before/after of the key sections of mark-up to another wiki page for that site.

Successes are also noted; the most recent are flagged as Success!.

If your successes resulted from emails that you sent to site owners/developers, please consider sharing your successful advocacy emails on the advocacy-email-samples page, and along with each email sample, list the sites which responded positively to your email. This way others in the community can learn from your success and hopefully use your email samples to contact additional sites and get them to adopt microformats.

organization

For now this section is organized primarily by microformat, as that's easier for the community to document and keep track of.

However, it may be more useful to publishers if we created another section organized by type of site.

E.g.:

etc.

by microformat

h-entry

browsers

Browser support of microformats, both built-in, and via plug-ins and extension helps users make better use of the numerous existing sites that have microformats support, as well as encourage sites and site developers to add microformats support.

See browser-advocacy.

publishing tools

Getting publishing tools adopt microformats will perhaps have the biggest impact on expanding the adoption and support of microformats. See cms for current publishing platform support.

Others:

  • postlets.com - which crossposs to craigslist.com and other classifieds services. If they generated span+a microformats (which apparently survive posting into Craigstlist posting), the posters could get postings in hCard without any additional work.
    • check oodle.com also.

web agencies

More and more web-agencies are supporting microformats both on their own sites and on sites they build.

Getting more web design, development, etc. agencies and related efforts to adopt microformats also has the indirect benefit of them supporting microformats in the sites they build and develop.

If you are a strong and vocal supporter of microformats in your work, please feel free to add yourself to the

online tutorials

Add microformats2 to topical online tutorials, especially if they already have classic microformats examples that can be updated.

multiple microformats

In general add such sites to the page for the primary microformat which would benefit from the sites' support. See above.

successes

Magnolia

ma.gnolia supports many microformats. These should all be incorporated into the examples-in-the-wild pages for each specific microformat.

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  • Success! added a microformats category to the ma.gnolia wiki, with information, and then added it to appropriate pages --Carla 10:37, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

OpenStreetMap

Wikipedia

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of Wikipedia templates generating microformats.

See also the individual microformats advocacy pages for specific microformat successes.

Specifics:

Geo on Wikipedia:

old

These sites have shown no activity for 6 months or more and thus are perhaps not worth the effort.

  • ClearForest Semantic Web Services - uses natural language processing tools to recognise people, organisations, places, events and CVs (resumes) in web pages. Would benefit from recognising hCard, hResume, hCalendar, Geo, Adr, etc. Could also use them in its output.

See Also

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