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User talk:AndyMabbett

2007-09-10T15:27:18Z

CarlaHufstedler: Thank you!

At least if I put something here, I won't keep seeing my name as a red link...

== Hello ==

Hi Andy,

I am one of the contributors/admins on wikispecies. You posted a message a while ago, also on our mailing list. I am wondering in what stage you really are with your private project. Have you actually build something, or are you still in the brain-storming phase? Anyway I'm anxious to see where you are going. --[[User:Hyppo|Hyppo]] 14:44, 8 Oct 2006 (PDT) (Kempm on Wikispecies)

== Wikitravel ==

Hey, I answered on my own talk page (It's never been clear to me what the best way to do this is.) In short Wikitravel is poised to do a major hCard rollout in the coming months. -- [[User:MarkJaroski|MarkJaroski]] 07:31, 25 Nov 2006 (PST)

== [[hcard-examples-in-wild]] ==

Hey, why is hiding semi-useful information using CSS bad? The Geo and Address stuff wouldn't be enough to contact me, but I would like there so bookmarklets, crawlers, greasemonkey etc can manipulate it. Is there a policy on using CSS hiding of fields? Thanks :) --[[User:WizardIsHungry|WizardIsHungry]] 14:35, 15 Dec 2006 (PST)

:See [[hcard-issues]] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 14:55, 15 Dec 2006 (PST)
:: Thanks, in the future it might be nice to throw "See [[hcard-issues]]" in the edit summary or in the annotation.--[[User:WizardIsHungry|WizardIsHungry]] 16:24, 15 Dec 2006 (PST)

== Thank you! ==

Thank you so much for catching my typo on my user page! I really appreciate it.
--[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 08:27, 10 Sep 2007 (PDT)

advocacy

2007-09-09T00:12:04Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* phpBB */ fixed my typo

<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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 
** DanC, did this happen? Could you renew your bounty for WWW2007? [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 10:34, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contact information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).
* [http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/ Ticket Master] (main UK ticket agency)
* [http://uktheatreguides.com/ UK Theatre Guides] multiple sites for UK theatre listings
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-09-03 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]
* [http://pownce.com Pownce]
** Requested a "rating" note-type which would produce hReview markup (see comment by pownce.com/t [http://pownce.com/leahculver/notes/621117/ in this thread]) [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 13:12, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup (inside [[hcard|hCard]] where appropriate) to these sites would make them even more useful:

*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker
*[http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ GPS Visualizer]
**As well as publishing coordinates; produces maps and graphics from files of waypoints; could do thr same for pages with Geo.
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-09-07 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.globalmotion.com/wiki/Main_Page GlobalMotion]

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

====Routes and tracks====
Sites which currently offer ''downloadable'' routes or tracks (as KML, GPX or similar files) could also offer a "view on-line" option, with the coordinates listed on a web page, marked-up with Geo (and hCard) microformats, which could then be parsed with whatever tool the user chooses.:

*[http://www.sharemyroutes.com/ Share My Routes] (e.g. [http://www.sharemyroutes.com/routes/United-Kingdom/dales/Yorkshire-3-peaks/details.aspx])
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-09-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:41, 4 Sep 2007 (PDT)

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====phpBB====

I am attempting to find out how best to incorporate microformats into the posting system, now that the programmers have removed XHTML from the posting interface. [http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=577689 I've posted wrt this topic] in the official forum; no response as of right now. --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 17:08, 8 Sep 2007 (PDT)

I did discover, however, [http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=578596 how to change the existing BBCode] (the shortcuts that are programmed in and present when you install phpBB) for <nowiki><bold></nowiki> and <nowiki><italic></nowiki> to <nowiki></nowiki> and <nowiki></nowiki>, which I will be doing now...so there's something, at least. :) --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 17:08, 8 Sep 2007 (PDT)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

==== Semantic MediaWiki ====

* [http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki wiki.ontoworld.org/Semantic_MediaWiki] — A semantic version of MediaWiki
** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki Extension used to implement it]
** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/ Sourceforge project page]
 
* Extension: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms Semantic Forms]
** [http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/ Semantic Forms homepage]
 
* MediaWiki category: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Data_extraction_extensions Data extraction extensions]

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

=== [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] ===

* [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]
* {{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) 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296152892/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1296152892_20108bd860_d.jpg] (click for larger version)
* {{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)

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
****Many broken; now using hidden metadata, 2007-09-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

advocacy

2007-09-09T00:08:12Z

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<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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 
** DanC, did this happen? Could you renew your bounty for WWW2007? [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 10:34, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contact information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).
* [http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/ Ticket Master] (main UK ticket agency)
* [http://uktheatreguides.com/ UK Theatre Guides] multiple sites for UK theatre listings
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-09-03 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]
* [http://pownce.com Pownce]
** Requested a "rating" note-type which would produce hReview markup (see comment by pownce.com/t [http://pownce.com/leahculver/notes/621117/ in this thread]) [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 13:12, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup (inside [[hcard|hCard]] where appropriate) to these sites would make them even more useful:

*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker
*[http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ GPS Visualizer]
**As well as publishing coordinates; produces maps and graphics from files of waypoints; could do thr same for pages with Geo.
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-09-07 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.globalmotion.com/wiki/Main_Page GlobalMotion]

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

====Routes and tracks====
Sites which currently offer ''downloadable'' routes or tracks (as KML, GPX or similar files) could also offer a "view on-line" option, with the coordinates listed on a web page, marked-up with Geo (and hCard) microformats, which could then be parsed with whatever tool the user chooses.:

*[http://www.sharemyroutes.com/ Share My Routes] (e.g. [http://www.sharemyroutes.com/routes/United-Kingdom/dales/Yorkshire-3-peaks/details.aspx])
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-09-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:41, 4 Sep 2007 (PDT)

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====phpBB====

I am attempting to find out how best to incorporate microformats into the posting system, now that the programmers have removed XHTML from the posting interface. [http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=577689 I've posted wrt this topic] in the official forum; no response as of right now. --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 17:08, 8 Sep 2007 (PDT)

I did discover, however, [http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=578596 how to change the existing BBCode] (the shortcuts that are programmed in and present when you install phpBB) for <code><bold></code> and <code><italic></code> to <code></code> and <code></code>, which I will be doing now...so there's something, at least. :) --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 17:08, 8 Sep 2007 (PDT)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

==== Semantic MediaWiki ====

* [http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki wiki.ontoworld.org/Semantic_MediaWiki] — A semantic version of MediaWiki
** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki Extension used to implement it]
** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/ Sourceforge project page]
 
* Extension: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms Semantic Forms]
** [http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/ Semantic Forms homepage]
 
* MediaWiki category: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Data_extraction_extensions Data extraction extensions]

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

=== [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] ===

* [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]
* {{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) 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296152892/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1296152892_20108bd860_d.jpg] (click for larger version)
* {{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)

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
****Many broken; now using hidden metadata, 2007-09-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

User:LarryHalff

2007-09-03T17:49:31Z

CarlaHufstedler: added links and mf spans/div

<div class="vcard">
* Larry Halff
* Founder of [http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]
* http://ma.gnolia.com/people/lhalff/
* http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/User:Lhalff
</div>

User:CarlaHufstedler

2007-09-03T17:48:44Z

CarlaHufstedler: added span

<div class="vcard">
Carla (Michele) Pettigrew Hufstedler

* Haunted Palace: http://www.hauntedpalace.net
* Pettigrew Family: http://pettigrewfamily.info
* Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/people/hauntedpalace
* ma.gnolia: http://ma.gnolia.com/people/carla
** [http://ma.gnolia.com/people/featured featured linker]
** [http://ma.gnolia.com/people/carla/tags/microformats ma.gnolia] bookmarks tagged ''microformats''
* twitter: http://twitter.com/carlamagpie
* LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cphufstedler
* OpenID: http://cphufstedler.myopenid.com/
* Site5Wiki: http://wiki.site5.com/User:Carla_Hufstedler
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User:CarlaHufstedler

2007-09-03T17:41:14Z

CarlaHufstedler: added link

<div class="vcard">
Carla (Michele) Pettigrew Hufstedler

* Haunted Palace: http://www.hauntedpalace.net
* Pettigrew Family: http://pettigrewfamily.info
* Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/people/hauntedpalace
* ma.gnolia: http://ma.gnolia.com/people/carla
** [http://ma.gnolia.com/people/featured featured linker]
** [http://ma.gnolia.com/people/carla/tags/microformats ma.gnolia] bookmarks tagged ''microformats''
* twitter: http://twitter.com/carlamagpie
* LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cphufstedler
* OpenID: http://cphufstedler.myopenid.com/
* Site5Wiki: http://wiki.site5.com/User:Carla_Hufstedler
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advocacy

2007-09-03T17:37:38Z

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<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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 
** DanC, did this happen? Could you renew your bounty for WWW2007? [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 10:34, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contact information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).
* [http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/ Ticket Master] (main UK ticket agency)
* [http://uktheatreguides.com/ UK Theatre Guides] multiple sites for UK theatre listings
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-09-03 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

==== Semantic MediaWiki ====

* [http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki wiki.ontoworld.org/Semantic_MediaWiki] — A semantic version of MediaWiki
** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki Extension used to implement it]
** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/ Sourceforge project page]
 
* Extension: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms Semantic Forms]
** [http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/ Semantic Forms homepage]
 
* MediaWiki category: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Data_extraction_extensions Data extraction extensions]

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

=== [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] ===

* [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]
* {{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) 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296152892/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1296152892_20108bd860_d.jpg] (click for larger version)
* {{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)

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
****Many broken; now using hidden metadata, 2007-09-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

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** Office hours: <del>Wednesday, 18:00-20:00 UTC</del> (Currently no office hours)
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irc

2007-09-01T21:56:52Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* Mac */ added Unicode; added portable version of X-Chat Aqua

= #microformats on freenode =

__TOC__

The microformats channel is hosted on the freenode.net server. See [[irc#Joining_a_server_and_channel|Joining a server and channel]] help for further information.

== Logs ==

Logs are available here: http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/

Atom feed of logs available here: http://microformat.makedatamakesense.com/log_feed/

== People on irc ==

See our [[irc-people|list of IRC regulars]] and their normal timezones.

=== Admins ===

Our channel has some admins, who are also mailing list and wiki admins. If you want to get their attention, just say "adminhelp".

== Greetings ==

To display a brief description of who you are each time you join the channel, you can create a definition for your username. To do so pass the <tt>?def</tt> command using something like the following convention (be brief):

<code>?def jdoe is John Doe and can be found online at <nowiki>http://www.example.com</nowiki></code>

More information about using JiBot commands can be found on the [http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/index.cgi?jibot jibot website]

==Bots==

The IRC channel uses these bots:

* [[mfbot]] - logs all edits to this wiki.
* [[mflogbot]]
* [http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/index.cgi?jibot jibot]

==Meetups==

The idea of having IRC meetups (that is, a set time for meeting on IRC) has been suggested by [[User:RyanKing|Ryan King]], as it appears to work well for the WordPress community and may help us from time-to-time. As of yet, there are no plans to have meetups, though.

= Getting started with IRC =

==Basic commands==
'''Please note:''' These directions relate specifically to the services that [http://freenode.net/ Freenode] offers. Other IRC servers may differ with the services they offer and how to operate them.

===Joining a server and channel===
Most clients will offer you a connection dialogue showing the required fields for connection. The details to connect to the server are:

*Server: <code>irc.freenode.net</code>
*Port: <code>6667</code> (usually default)

You should also fill in any fields to set your alias, real name and email address. If available, save these settings for later to speed up connecting in future.

More on setting a password protected alias can be [[irc#Creating_a_registered_nickname|read here]].

Once connected, you will most likely be presented with the "MOTD" (message of the day). For the first visit, it is advisable to read this to find out about the server's policies and other important pieces of news and help, otherwise it can be ignored and you can either [[irc#Creating_a_registered_nickname|authenticate your alias]] or join a channel.

Your client may display to you a listing of all available channels. Locate <code>#microformats</code> and select to join, or type <code>'''/join #microformats'''</code> into the command line available to you in your client (where you've just been shown your connection).

Assuming you've connected correctly, you should now find youself in the microformats channel!

More detailed, but general, advice can be [http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html#intro read here].

===Creating a registered nickname===
Registration means that a password becomes associated with your alias/nickname/sign-in name and from the point of registration authorisation is required to communicate using that alias.

Registration of a nickname is required for some channels, and should be done to protect your identity.

To register with [http://freenode.net Freenode], you must communicate with their service known as NickServ. The two basic command you will need to get started are:

For registration: <code>/msg nickserv register ''password''</code>

For authentication (login): <code>/msg nickserv identify ''password''</code>

With <code>''password''</code> being a value of your choice. You can also associate an email address with your nickname, which is optional, but advisable, should you want to request a password retrieval:

To add your email address: <code>/msg nickserv set email ''email''</code>

Where <code>''email''</code> is your email address.

Your client may offer you an option to set your alias and password, so that you will not have to manually enter this information on each join. Refer to your client's help files for more on this.

These commands can be typed directly into the server window upon join, or whilst in a channel, just as you would normally send a message.

More detailed user registration command information can be found in [http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#userregistration Freenode's FAQ]

===Communicating===

Sending a message to a channel may be as simple as joining the channel and typing into the window, just as you would with an Instant Messenger. You can refer to your client's help files for quicker/alternative methods of doing the following. For all clients the following commands are available (the parts in bold must be used, but are not seen by others):

'''Sending a message to the entire channel you are currently in:'''

Command: '''/msg''' ''Hello world!''

Result: '''<Bill> Hello world!'''

'''Sending an action/emotive/3rd person statement:'''

Command: <code>'''/me''' ''dances a code jig''</code>

Result: '''''Bill dances a code jig'''''

'''Sending a message to one person only (private chat):'''

Command: <code>'''/msg Bob''' ''Hi, would you like to code jig?''</code>

Result (for Bob only): '''<Bill> Hi, would you like to code jig?'''

===Advanced===
...working on...

==Clients==

The following clients are recommended by #microformats participants:

===Windows===

* [http://www.mirc.com/ mIRC] - Popular Windows client. Trial version only.
* [http://xchat.org/ X-Chat] - Popular cross-platform client. [http://www.silverex.org/download/ Free Windows version] available.
* [http://www.adiirc.com/ AdiIRC] - Simple C# based IRC client.
* [http://www.miranda-im.org/ Miranda] - Lightweight, muti-protocol instant messenger.

=== Mac ===

* [http://colloquy.info Colloquy] — open source, free
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fire Fire] — open source, free
* [http://www.snak.com/ Snak]
* [http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome X-Chat Aqua] — X11 based IRC chat
** now has [http://www.portableapps.org PortableApps] version — [http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21685/portable-x-chat-aqua MacUpdate link]
* [http://homepage.mac.com/philrobin/conversation/ Conversation]
* [http://www.chipersoft.com/minerva/ Minerva]
* [http://www.aquaticx.com/ Xirc]

===Cross-platform===
* [http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/ Chatzilla] - Cross-platform IRC extension for Firefox
* [http://irssi.org/ Irssi] - Unix client, often run from a shell, sometimes [http://f0rked.com/articles/irssi in conjunction with 'screen'].
* [http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Gaim] - Cross-platform multi-protocol instant messenger.
* [http://jirc.hick.org/jirc/ jIRCii]

=IRC and microformats=
== hCard ==
''How do we maintain info about ircing in our hCards (nick, network, fav-channels?)?''

== Related discussions ==

* chat [[chat-examples|chat examples]], [[chat-formats|chat formats]], and [[chat-brainstorming|chat brainstorming]]

User:CarlaHufstedler

2007-09-01T19:28:40Z

CarlaHufstedler: added link

<div class="vcard">
Carla (Michele) Pettigrew Hufstedler

* Haunted Palace: http://www.hauntedpalace.net
* Pettigrew Family: http://pettigrewfamily.info
* Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/people/hauntedpalace
* ma.gnolia: http://ma.gnolia.com/people/carla
** [http://ma.gnolia.com/people/featured featured linker]
* twitter: http://twitter.com/carlamagpie
* LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cphufstedler
* OpenID: http://cphufstedler.myopenid.com/
* Site5Wiki: http://wiki.site5.com/User:Carla_Hufstedler
</div>
 
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I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain public domain]. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use pages with my contributions under public domain terms, please check the other contributors' user pages.</div></div>
[[Category:public domain license|{{PAGENAME}}]]

buttons

2007-09-01T19:20:36Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* Licensing */ added mine

<h1>Microformats Buttons</h1>

There have been requests for buttons for various microformats. Either badges, or buttons that do something with the specific microformats. This page keeps a list of buttons, and requests as well. - [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek]

Added hosted buttons for all the microformats, including the draft ones, as well as instructions on how to make your own buttons. (14 May 2006) - [http://www.wackomenace.co.uk/ Ruben]

==Licensing==

If you add links to buttons you have designed, '''please also include a statement''' that you do one of the following:
*release them into the public domain
*hold copyright, but release all rights as to it use
*license them under a specified free license, e.g. consider using a [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] license, such as [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0].

Thank you.

* Images below hosted at boogdesign.com are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ CC Attribution 2.0 License], see [http://www.boogdesign.com/buttons.html my buttons page] for the Photoshop files if you need them. - Rob Crowther

* Images below hosted at rbach.priv.at are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0 license]. - [[User:RobertBachmann|Robert Bachmann]]

* Images below hosted at synaesthetic.net are available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license]. -- [[User:Kwilson|Kenn Wilson]]

* Images below hosted at hauntedpalace.net and flickr.com/photos.hauntedpalace (POSH logos and palette cheatsheet) are available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license]. — [[:User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla Hufstedler]]

__TOC__

== Buttons ==

=== Microformat Button ===
I've made a button for microformats. Since there are so many microformats and with more to come, just indicating support/ use of might be a good generic approach. The image is free to use. Please copy it to your own hosting account and not link to it.

http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png

I already have a "I use
http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png" on my blog: http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/

- Don Crowley

* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_enabled.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_white.png

=== [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcalendar.png
* CSS-powered button from [http://www.midgard-project.org/community/events/ Midgard CMS - Event calendar]:

››› hCalendar

Code (white space added for readability):

<pre><nowiki>


&#8250;&#8250;&#8250;

hCalendar

</nowiki></pre>

=== [[hcard|hCard]] ===
* http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png (mirror: http://www.davidjanes.com/images/mf_hcard.png)
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcard.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcard.png
* CSS-powered button, as evidenced at [http://re-run.com/about/microformat-badges microformat badges @ re-run]

=== [[rel-license]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/license.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_rellicense.png

=== [[rel-nofollow]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/nofollow.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_relnofollow.png

=== [[rel-tag]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-tag.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/tag.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_reltag.png

=== [[vote-links|VoteLinks]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/votelinks.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_votelinks.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfn.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xfn.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xmdp/ XMDP] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xmdp.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xmdp.png

=== [[xoxo|XOXO]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xoxo.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xoxo.png

===CSS Styles for microformats===
I'm not sure wether this can be under buttons, but I don't know where else to put it. This is a stylesheet containing styles for most microformats. And, it's automatic. I release it under the cc by-sa. Please note that I am new to microformats, and if you can improve this, please do. [[User:Mac Lover|Mac Lover]] 13:25, 13 Apr 2007 (PDT)

[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ License]
[http://alyosha.bendebury.net/microformat-css.zip Zip]

== Buttons for draft formats ==

These may be subject to change if the names of the formats change when they are released.

=== [[adr]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/adr.png

=== [[geo]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/geo.png

=== [[hatom|hAtom]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hatom.png
* http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

=== [[hresume|hResume]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hresume.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hresume.png

=== [[hreview|hReview]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hreview.png

=== [[rel-directory]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/directory.png

=== [[rel-enclosure]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/enclosure.png

=== [[rel-home]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-home.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/home.png

=== [[relpayment-research|rel-payment]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/payment.png

=== [[robots-exclusion|Robots Exclusion]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/robots.png

=== [[xfolk|xFolk]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfolk.png

== Make your own buttons ==
=== Style 1 ===

Example: http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png

Use the [http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/ Kalsey Button Maker] with the following settings:
* Outer border: #666666
* Inner border: #ffffff
* Bar position: 25 pixels from the left
* Left box text: >>>
* Left box background: #000000
* Left box text colour: #ffffff
* Left box text start: 7 pixels from the left
* Right box text: (The name of the microformat goes here)
* Right box background: #31757b
* Right box text colour: #ffffff
* Right box text start: 3 pixels from the bar

=== Style 2 ===

Example: http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 28,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

=== Style 3 ===

Example: http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/button2-blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert button2-blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 20,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

= Microformats Logos =

Rohit is a very poor CSS hacker, but gave it his best shot. He also [http://labs.commerce.net/~rohit/µf-logo.html rendered it at 72 and 18 points.]

http://microformats.org/img/logo.gif

<div style="position: relative; top:-46px; left:180px">
<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:30px; height: 30px; left:1px; top:10px; position:absolute; -moz-border-radius:5pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:22px; height: 22px; left:11.5px; top:6px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white; -moz-border-radius:4pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:14px; height: 14px; left:22.5px; top:4px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white;-moz-border-radius:2pt;"></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.5pt;letter-spacing:0px;color:#676767; position: absolute; left:44px; top: -6px">
microformats
</div>
</div>

The following logo as a transparent PNG (linked here from my own server; if you use it, please copy it for yourself):

http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/microformats1.png

== Palette ==

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#AEE219</div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#85BC07</div>

<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#679A06</div>

 
I created a cheatsheet using [http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ Big Huge Lab]'s Badgemaker: 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296783076/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1231/1296783076_1d6fe8a1f8_m_d.jpg]
--[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 12:11, 1 Sep 2007 (PDT)

== POSH logos ==

* [[posh|POSH]] logos and buttons

=Wiki buttons=
For use on this wiki.
*{{NewMarker}} - <nowiki>{{NewMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{SuccessMarker}} - <nowiki>{{SuccessMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{UpdateMarker}} - <nowiki>{{UpdateMarker}}</nowiki>

= Requests =

* Logos for all microformats

* When someone has time, these should be repeated on the page for each respective format.

==See also==

{{branding-see-also}}

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]
[[Category:Specifications]]

buttons

2007-09-01T19:12:53Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* Microformats Logos */ added link

<h1>Microformats Buttons</h1>

There have been requests for buttons for various microformats. Either badges, or buttons that do something with the specific microformats. This page keeps a list of buttons, and requests as well. - [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek]

Added hosted buttons for all the microformats, including the draft ones, as well as instructions on how to make your own buttons. (14 May 2006) - [http://www.wackomenace.co.uk/ Ruben]

==Licensing==

If you add links to buttons you have designed, '''please also include a statement''' that you do one of the following:
*release them into the public domain
*hold copyright, but release all rights as to it use
*license them under a specified free license, e.g. consider using a [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] license, such as [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0].

Thank you.

* Images below hosted at boogdesign.com are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ CC Attribution 2.0 License], see [http://www.boogdesign.com/buttons.html my buttons page] for the Photoshop files if you need them. - Rob Crowther

* Images below hosted at rbach.priv.at are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0 license]. - [[User:RobertBachmann|Robert Bachmann]]

* Images below hosted at synaesthetic.net are available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license]. -- [[User:Kwilson|Kenn Wilson]]

__TOC__

== Buttons ==

=== Microformat Button ===
I've made a button for microformats. Since there are so many microformats and with more to come, just indicating support/ use of might be a good generic approach. The image is free to use. Please copy it to your own hosting account and not link to it.

http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png

I already have a "I use
http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png" on my blog: http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/

- Don Crowley

* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_enabled.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_white.png

=== [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcalendar.png
* CSS-powered button from [http://www.midgard-project.org/community/events/ Midgard CMS - Event calendar]:

››› hCalendar

Code (white space added for readability):

<pre><nowiki>


&#8250;&#8250;&#8250;

hCalendar

</nowiki></pre>

=== [[hcard|hCard]] ===
* http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png (mirror: http://www.davidjanes.com/images/mf_hcard.png)
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcard.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcard.png
* CSS-powered button, as evidenced at [http://re-run.com/about/microformat-badges microformat badges @ re-run]

=== [[rel-license]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/license.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_rellicense.png

=== [[rel-nofollow]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/nofollow.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_relnofollow.png

=== [[rel-tag]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-tag.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/tag.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_reltag.png

=== [[vote-links|VoteLinks]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/votelinks.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_votelinks.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfn.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xfn.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xmdp/ XMDP] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xmdp.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xmdp.png

=== [[xoxo|XOXO]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xoxo.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xoxo.png

===CSS Styles for microformats===
I'm not sure wether this can be under buttons, but I don't know where else to put it. This is a stylesheet containing styles for most microformats. And, it's automatic. I release it under the cc by-sa. Please note that I am new to microformats, and if you can improve this, please do. [[User:Mac Lover|Mac Lover]] 13:25, 13 Apr 2007 (PDT)

[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ License]
[http://alyosha.bendebury.net/microformat-css.zip Zip]

== Buttons for draft formats ==

These may be subject to change if the names of the formats change when they are released.

=== [[adr]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/adr.png

=== [[geo]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/geo.png

=== [[hatom|hAtom]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hatom.png
* http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

=== [[hresume|hResume]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hresume.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hresume.png

=== [[hreview|hReview]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hreview.png

=== [[rel-directory]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/directory.png

=== [[rel-enclosure]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/enclosure.png

=== [[rel-home]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-home.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/home.png

=== [[relpayment-research|rel-payment]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/payment.png

=== [[robots-exclusion|Robots Exclusion]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/robots.png

=== [[xfolk|xFolk]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfolk.png

== Make your own buttons ==
=== Style 1 ===

Example: http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png

Use the [http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/ Kalsey Button Maker] with the following settings:
* Outer border: #666666
* Inner border: #ffffff
* Bar position: 25 pixels from the left
* Left box text: >>>
* Left box background: #000000
* Left box text colour: #ffffff
* Left box text start: 7 pixels from the left
* Right box text: (The name of the microformat goes here)
* Right box background: #31757b
* Right box text colour: #ffffff
* Right box text start: 3 pixels from the bar

=== Style 2 ===

Example: http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 28,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

=== Style 3 ===

Example: http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/button2-blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert button2-blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 20,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

= Microformats Logos =

Rohit is a very poor CSS hacker, but gave it his best shot. He also [http://labs.commerce.net/~rohit/µf-logo.html rendered it at 72 and 18 points.]

http://microformats.org/img/logo.gif

<div style="position: relative; top:-46px; left:180px">
<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:30px; height: 30px; left:1px; top:10px; position:absolute; -moz-border-radius:5pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:22px; height: 22px; left:11.5px; top:6px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white; -moz-border-radius:4pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:14px; height: 14px; left:22.5px; top:4px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white;-moz-border-radius:2pt;"></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.5pt;letter-spacing:0px;color:#676767; position: absolute; left:44px; top: -6px">
microformats
</div>
</div>

The following logo as a transparent PNG (linked here from my own server; if you use it, please copy it for yourself):

http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/microformats1.png

== Palette ==

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#AEE219</div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#85BC07</div>

<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#679A06</div>

 
I created a cheatsheet using [http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ Big Huge Lab]'s Badgemaker: 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296783076/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1231/1296783076_1d6fe8a1f8_m_d.jpg]
--[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 12:11, 1 Sep 2007 (PDT)

== POSH logos ==

* [[posh|POSH]] logos and buttons

=Wiki buttons=
For use on this wiki.
*{{NewMarker}} - <nowiki>{{NewMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{SuccessMarker}} - <nowiki>{{SuccessMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{UpdateMarker}} - <nowiki>{{UpdateMarker}}</nowiki>

= Requests =

* Logos for all microformats

* When someone has time, these should be repeated on the page for each respective format.

==See also==

{{branding-see-also}}

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]
[[Category:Specifications]]

buttons

2007-09-01T19:11:41Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* Microformats Logos */ added palette as minicheatsheet image

<h1>Microformats Buttons</h1>

There have been requests for buttons for various microformats. Either badges, or buttons that do something with the specific microformats. This page keeps a list of buttons, and requests as well. - [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek]

Added hosted buttons for all the microformats, including the draft ones, as well as instructions on how to make your own buttons. (14 May 2006) - [http://www.wackomenace.co.uk/ Ruben]

==Licensing==

If you add links to buttons you have designed, '''please also include a statement''' that you do one of the following:
*release them into the public domain
*hold copyright, but release all rights as to it use
*license them under a specified free license, e.g. consider using a [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] license, such as [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0].

Thank you.

* Images below hosted at boogdesign.com are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ CC Attribution 2.0 License], see [http://www.boogdesign.com/buttons.html my buttons page] for the Photoshop files if you need them. - Rob Crowther

* Images below hosted at rbach.priv.at are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0 license]. - [[User:RobertBachmann|Robert Bachmann]]

* Images below hosted at synaesthetic.net are available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license]. -- [[User:Kwilson|Kenn Wilson]]

__TOC__

== Buttons ==

=== Microformat Button ===
I've made a button for microformats. Since there are so many microformats and with more to come, just indicating support/ use of might be a good generic approach. The image is free to use. Please copy it to your own hosting account and not link to it.

http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png

I already have a "I use
http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png" on my blog: http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/

- Don Crowley

* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_enabled.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_white.png

=== [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcalendar.png
* CSS-powered button from [http://www.midgard-project.org/community/events/ Midgard CMS - Event calendar]:

››› hCalendar

Code (white space added for readability):

<pre><nowiki>


&#8250;&#8250;&#8250;

hCalendar

</nowiki></pre>

=== [[hcard|hCard]] ===
* http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png (mirror: http://www.davidjanes.com/images/mf_hcard.png)
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcard.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcard.png
* CSS-powered button, as evidenced at [http://re-run.com/about/microformat-badges microformat badges @ re-run]

=== [[rel-license]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/license.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_rellicense.png

=== [[rel-nofollow]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/nofollow.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_relnofollow.png

=== [[rel-tag]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-tag.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/tag.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_reltag.png

=== [[vote-links|VoteLinks]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/votelinks.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_votelinks.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfn.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xfn.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xmdp/ XMDP] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xmdp.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xmdp.png

=== [[xoxo|XOXO]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xoxo.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xoxo.png

===CSS Styles for microformats===
I'm not sure wether this can be under buttons, but I don't know where else to put it. This is a stylesheet containing styles for most microformats. And, it's automatic. I release it under the cc by-sa. Please note that I am new to microformats, and if you can improve this, please do. [[User:Mac Lover|Mac Lover]] 13:25, 13 Apr 2007 (PDT)

[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ License]
[http://alyosha.bendebury.net/microformat-css.zip Zip]

== Buttons for draft formats ==

These may be subject to change if the names of the formats change when they are released.

=== [[adr]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/adr.png

=== [[geo]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/geo.png

=== [[hatom|hAtom]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hatom.png
* http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

=== [[hresume|hResume]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hresume.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hresume.png

=== [[hreview|hReview]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hreview.png

=== [[rel-directory]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/directory.png

=== [[rel-enclosure]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/enclosure.png

=== [[rel-home]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-home.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/home.png

=== [[relpayment-research|rel-payment]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/payment.png

=== [[robots-exclusion|Robots Exclusion]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/robots.png

=== [[xfolk|xFolk]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfolk.png

== Make your own buttons ==
=== Style 1 ===

Example: http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png

Use the [http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/ Kalsey Button Maker] with the following settings:
* Outer border: #666666
* Inner border: #ffffff
* Bar position: 25 pixels from the left
* Left box text: >>>
* Left box background: #000000
* Left box text colour: #ffffff
* Left box text start: 7 pixels from the left
* Right box text: (The name of the microformat goes here)
* Right box background: #31757b
* Right box text colour: #ffffff
* Right box text start: 3 pixels from the bar

=== Style 2 ===

Example: http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 28,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

=== Style 3 ===

Example: http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/button2-blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert button2-blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 20,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

= Microformats Logos =

Rohit is a very poor CSS hacker, but gave it his best shot. He also [http://labs.commerce.net/~rohit/µf-logo.html rendered it at 72 and 18 points.]

http://microformats.org/img/logo.gif

<div style="position: relative; top:-46px; left:180px">
<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:30px; height: 30px; left:1px; top:10px; position:absolute; -moz-border-radius:5pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:22px; height: 22px; left:11.5px; top:6px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white; -moz-border-radius:4pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:14px; height: 14px; left:22.5px; top:4px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white;-moz-border-radius:2pt;"></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.5pt;letter-spacing:0px;color:#676767; position: absolute; left:44px; top: -6px">
microformats
</div>
</div>

The following logo as a transparent PNG (linked here from my own server; if you use it, please copy it for yourself):

http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/microformats1.png

== Palette ==

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#AEE219</div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#85BC07</div>

<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#679A06</div>

 
I created a cheatsheet using Big Huge Lab's Badgemaker: 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296783076/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1231/1296783076_1d6fe8a1f8_m_d.jpg]
--[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 12:11, 1 Sep 2007 (PDT)

== POSH logos ==

* [[posh|POSH]] logos and buttons

=Wiki buttons=
For use on this wiki.
*{{NewMarker}} - <nowiki>{{NewMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{SuccessMarker}} - <nowiki>{{SuccessMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{UpdateMarker}} - <nowiki>{{UpdateMarker}}</nowiki>

= Requests =

* Logos for all microformats

* When someone has time, these should be repeated on the page for each respective format.

==See also==

{{branding-see-also}}

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]
[[Category:Specifications]]

hcards-on-microformats-wiki

2007-09-01T18:11:43Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* Wiki users' hCards */ added note and request for help

=hCards on this Wiki=

These people have added an [[hcard|hCard]] to their user page on this Wiki; you can use "edit" on their pages to see how they have done so, and to copy the mark-up to you user page, but please don't make any changes to their pages.

Add yourself using <nowiki>*~~~</nowiki> and append a comment if you wish.

==Wiki users' hCards==

* [[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla Hufstedler]] (with <code>n</code> sub-properties)
** ...and with hResume and org...but Operator's not showing it. Anyone, please feel free to correct my errors on my user page. Thank you! :) --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 11:11, 1 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] (name only)
* [[User:RobManson|Rob Manson]] (business postal address)
* ...

User:CarlaHufstedler

2007-09-01T18:09:16Z

CarlaHufstedler: fixed hResume call

Carla (Michele) Pettigrew Hufstedler

* [http://www.hauntedpalace.net hauntedpalace.net]
* [http://pettigrewfamily.info pettigrewfamily.info]
* [http://www.flickr.com/people/hauntedpalace Flickr]
* [http://ma.gnolia.com/people/carla ma.gnolia]
* [http://twitter.com/carlamagpie twitter]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cphufstedler LinkedIn]
* [http://cphufstedler.myopenid.com/ cphufstedler.myopenid.com]
* [http://wiki.site5.com/User:Carla_Hufstedler Site5Wiki]


<div id="publicdomainrelease" style="background: #f7f8ff; border: 1px solid #88a; padding: 5px; font-size: 80%;">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/64px-PD-icon.svg.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/64px-PD-icon.svg.png
<div style="background:#fff;margin:0 68px;padding:2px"><div style="text-align: center; background: #ccf;">'''Released into public domain'''</div>
I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain public domain]. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use pages with my contributions under public domain terms, please check the other contributors' user pages.</div></div>
[[Category:public domain license|{{PAGENAME}}]]

User:CarlaHufstedler

2007-09-01T18:07:15Z

CarlaHufstedler: tweaked layout

Carla (Michele) Pettigrew Hufstedler

* [http://www.hauntedpalace.net hauntedpalace.net]
* [http://pettigrewfamily.info pettigrewfamily.info]
* [http://www.flickr.com/people/hauntedpalace Flickr]
* [http://ma.gnolia.com/people/carla ma.gnolia]
* [http://twitter.com/carlamagpie twitter]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cphufstedler LinkedIn]
* [http://cphufstedler.myopenid.com/ cphufstedler.myopenid.com]
* [http://wiki.site5.com/User:Carla_Hufstedler]


<div id="publicdomainrelease" style="background: #f7f8ff; border: 1px solid #88a; padding: 5px; font-size: 80%;">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/64px-PD-icon.svg.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/64px-PD-icon.svg.png
<div style="background:#fff;margin:0 68px;padding:2px"><div style="text-align: center; background: #ccf;">'''Released into public domain'''</div>
I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain public domain]. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use pages with my contributions under public domain terms, please check the other contributors' user pages.</div></div>
[[Category:public domain license|{{PAGENAME}}]]

User:CarlaHufstedler

2007-09-01T18:06:09Z

CarlaHufstedler: added microformats

Carla (Michele) Pettigrew Hufstedler

[http://www.hauntedpalace.net hauntedpalace.net]
[http://pettigrewfamily.info pettigrewfamily.info]
[http://www.flickr.com/people/hauntedpalace Flickr]
[http://ma.gnolia.com/people/carla ma.gnolia]
[http://twitter.com/carlamagpie twitter]
[http://www.linkedin.com/in/cphufstedler LinkedIn]
[http://cphufstedler.myopenid.com/ cphufstedler.myopenid.com]
[http://wiki.site5.com/User:Carla_Hufstedler]


<div id="publicdomainrelease" style="background: #f7f8ff; border: 1px solid #88a; padding: 5px; font-size: 80%;">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/64px-PD-icon.svg.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/64px-PD-icon.svg.png
<div style="background:#fff;margin:0 68px;padding:2px"><div style="text-align: center; background: #ccf;">'''Released into public domain'''</div>
I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain public domain]. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use pages with my contributions under public domain terms, please check the other contributors' user pages.</div></div>
[[Category:public domain license|{{PAGENAME}}]]

User:CarlaHufstedler

2007-09-01T18:00:50Z

CarlaHufstedler: added OpenID

Carla Pettigrew Hufstedler

* [http://www.hauntedpalace.net hauntedpalace.net]
* [http://pettigrewfamily.info pettigrewfamily.info]
* [http://www.flickr.com/people/hauntedpalace Flickr]
* [http://ma.gnolia.com/people/carla ma.gnolia]
* [http://twitter.com/carlamagpie twitter]
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/cphufstedler LinkedIn]
* [http://cphufstedler.myopenid.com/ cphufstedler.myopenid.com]

<div id="publicdomainrelease" style="background: #f7f8ff; border: 1px solid #88a; padding: 5px; font-size: 80%;">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/64px-PD-icon.svg.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/64px-PD-icon.svg.png
<div style="background:#fff;margin:0 68px;padding:2px"><div style="text-align: center; background: #ccf;">'''Released into public domain'''</div>
I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain public domain]. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use pages with my contributions under public domain terms, please check the other contributors' user pages.</div></div>
[[Category:public domain license|{{PAGENAME}}]]

advocacy

2007-09-01T17:43:18Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] */ added note

<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contant information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

==== Semantic MediaWiki ====

* [http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki wiki.ontoworld.org/Semantic_MediaWiki] — A semantic version of MediaWiki
** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki Extension used to implement it]
** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/ Sourceforge project page]
 
* Extension: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms Semantic Forms]
** [http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/ Semantic Forms homepage]
 
* MediaWiki category: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Data_extraction_extensions Data extraction extensions]

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

=== [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] ===

* [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]
* {{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) 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296152892/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1296152892_20108bd860_d.jpg] (click for larger version)

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]

advocacy

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<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contant information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

==== Semantic MediaWiki ====

* [http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki wiki.ontoworld.org/Semantic_MediaWiki] — A semantic version of MediaWiki
** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki Extension used to implement it]
** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/ Sourceforge project page]
 
* Extension: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms Semantic Forms]
** [http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/ Semantic Forms homepage]
 
* MediaWiki category: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Data_extraction_extensions Data extraction extensions]

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

=== [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] ===

* [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]
* {{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) 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296152892/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1296152892_20108bd860_d.jpg]

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]

advocacy

2007-09-01T17:33:10Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] */ tweaked

<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contant information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Semantic MediaWiki====
*[http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki]
** A semantic version of MediaWiki

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

=== ma.gnolia ===

* [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]
* {{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) 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296152892/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1296152892_20108bd860_d.jpg]

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]

advocacy

2007-09-01T17:32:02Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] */ added Success marker

<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contant information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Semantic MediaWiki====
*[http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki]
** A semantic version of MediaWiki

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

=== [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] ===

* [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]
* {{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) 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296152892/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1296152892_20108bd860_d.jpg]

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]

advocacy

2007-09-01T17:30:33Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* ma.gnolia */ added screenshot with info

<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contant information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Semantic MediaWiki====
*[http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki]
** A semantic version of MediaWiki

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

=== [http://ma.gnolia.com ma.gnolia] ===

* [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]
* [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) 
[http://flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/1296152892/ http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1296152892_20108bd860_d.jpg]

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]

buttons

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<h1>Microformats Buttons</h1>

There have been requests for buttons for various microformats. Either badges, or buttons that do something with the specific microformats. This page keeps a list of buttons, and requests as well. - [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek]

Added hosted buttons for all the microformats, including the draft ones, as well as instructions on how to make your own buttons. (14 May 2006) - [http://www.wackomenace.co.uk/ Ruben]

==Licensing==

If you add links to buttons you have designed, '''please also include a statement''' that you do one of the following:
*release them into the public domain
*hold copyright, but release all rights as to it use
*license them under a specified free license, e.g. consider using a [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] license, such as [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0].

Thank you.

* Images below hosted at boogdesign.com are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ CC Attribution 2.0 License], see [http://www.boogdesign.com/buttons.html my buttons page] for the Photoshop files if you need them. - Rob Crowther

* Images below hosted at rbach.priv.at are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0 license]. - [[User:RobertBachmann|Robert Bachmann]]

* Images below hosted at synaesthetic.net are available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license]. -- [[User:Kwilson|Kenn Wilson]]

__TOC__

== Buttons ==

=== Microformat Button ===
I've made a button for microformats. Since there are so many microformats and with more to come, just indicating support/ use of might be a good generic approach. The image is free to use. Please copy it to your own hosting account and not link to it.

http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png

I already have a "I use
http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png" on my blog: http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/

- Don Crowley

* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_enabled.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_white.png

=== [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcalendar.png
* CSS-powered button from [http://www.midgard-project.org/community/events/ Midgard CMS - Event calendar]:

››› hCalendar

Code (white space added for readability):

<pre><nowiki>


&#8250;&#8250;&#8250;

hCalendar

</nowiki></pre>

=== [[hcard|hCard]] ===
* http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png (mirror: http://www.davidjanes.com/images/mf_hcard.png)
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcard.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcard.png
* CSS-powered button, as evidenced at [http://re-run.com/about/microformat-badges microformat badges @ re-run]

=== [[rel-license]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/license.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_rellicense.png

=== [[rel-nofollow]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/nofollow.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_relnofollow.png

=== [[rel-tag]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-tag.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/tag.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_reltag.png

=== [[vote-links|VoteLinks]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/votelinks.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_votelinks.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfn.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xfn.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xmdp/ XMDP] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xmdp.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xmdp.png

=== [[xoxo|XOXO]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xoxo.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xoxo.png

===CSS Styles for microformats===
I'm not sure wether this can be under buttons, but I don't know where else to put it. This is a stylesheet containing styles for most microformats. And, it's automatic. I release it under the cc by-sa. Please note that I am new to microformats, and if you can improve this, please do. [[User:Mac Lover|Mac Lover]] 13:25, 13 Apr 2007 (PDT)

[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ License]
[http://alyosha.bendebury.net/microformat-css.zip Zip]

== Buttons for draft formats ==

These may be subject to change if the names of the formats change when they are released.

=== [[adr]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/adr.png

=== [[geo]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/geo.png

=== [[hatom|hAtom]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hatom.png
* http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

=== [[hresume|hResume]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hresume.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hresume.png

=== [[hreview|hReview]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hreview.png

=== [[rel-directory]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/directory.png

=== [[rel-enclosure]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/enclosure.png

=== [[rel-home]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-home.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/home.png

=== [[relpayment-research|rel-payment]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/payment.png

=== [[robots-exclusion|Robots Exclusion]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/robots.png

=== [[xfolk|xFolk]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfolk.png

== Make your own buttons ==
=== Style 1 ===

Example: http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png

Use the [http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/ Kalsey Button Maker] with the following settings:
* Outer border: #666666
* Inner border: #ffffff
* Bar position: 25 pixels from the left
* Left box text: >>>
* Left box background: #000000
* Left box text colour: #ffffff
* Left box text start: 7 pixels from the left
* Right box text: (The name of the microformat goes here)
* Right box background: #31757b
* Right box text colour: #ffffff
* Right box text start: 3 pixels from the bar

=== Style 2 ===

Example: http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 28,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

=== Style 3 ===

Example: http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/button2-blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert button2-blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 20,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

= Microformats Logos =
Rohit is a very poor CSS hacker, but gave it his best shot. He also [http://labs.commerce.net/~rohit/µf-logo.html rendered it at 72 and 18 points.]

http://microformats.org/img/logo.gif

<div style="position: relative; top:-46px; left:180px">
<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:30px; height: 30px; left:1px; top:10px; position:absolute; -moz-border-radius:5pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:22px; height: 22px; left:11.5px; top:6px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white; -moz-border-radius:4pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:14px; height: 14px; left:22.5px; top:4px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white;-moz-border-radius:2pt;"></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.5pt;letter-spacing:0px;color:#676767; position: absolute; left:44px; top: -6px">
microformats
</div>
</div>

The following logo as a transparent PNG (linked here from my own server; if you use it, please copy it for yourself):

http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/microformats1.png

== Palette ==

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#AEE219</div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#85BC07</div>

<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#679A06</div>

== POSH logos ==

* [[posh|POSH]] logos and buttons

=Wiki buttons=
For use on this wiki.
*{{NewMarker}} - <nowiki>{{NewMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{SuccessMarker}} - <nowiki>{{SuccessMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{UpdateMarker}} - <nowiki>{{UpdateMarker}}</nowiki>

= Requests =

* Logos for all microformats

* When someone has time, these should be repeated on the page for each respective format.

==See also==

{{branding-see-also}}

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]
[[Category:Specifications]]

spread-microformats

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<h1>Spread Microformats</h1>

Inspired by [http://spreadfirefox.com/ Spread Firefox], this page is for sharing community resources for marketing microformats such as [[buttons]], banners, wallpaper / desktop screens, logo graphics, etc.

== Email ==
* See [[advocacy-email-samples]] for some sample emails you can copy/customize and send to site owners to encourage them adopt microformats.

== Wallpaper ==
=== Wallpaper and desktop screens. ===
* A [http://remiprevost.com/images/wallpapers/microformats/ wallpaper] by [[User:Remi|Rémi Prévost]]

== Logo ==

* A [http://remiprevost.com/images/wallpapers/microformats/mf-vector.svg SVG] and [http://remiprevost.com/images/wallpapers/microformats/mf-vector.png PNG] (for Fireworks) version of the microformats logo, by [[User:Remi|Rémi Prévost]] (Released under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Creative Commons BY-NC-SA] license)

== POSH ==

* [[posh|POSH]] logos and buttons

==Semacode==
See [[semacode]].

== T-Shirts ==

* [http://www.goodstorm.com/item/factorycity/microformats_shirt_we_do_it_with_class Buy microformats t-shirts at Goodstorm]
* See [http://flickr.com/photos/tags/microformatstshirt photos of microformats tshirts on Flickr] (the [http://flickr.com/photos/tags/microformatstshirt/clusters/ clusters] are especially fun)
** Note also [http://pixelsebi.com/2006-10-26/microformats-t-shirt-in-second-life/ microformats t-shirt in Second Life]

== Video ==
* See [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=microformats videos of microformats on YouTube], in particular, a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAV4SGpPuQI video of a microformats tshirt] ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/fumi/372068162/ photo]).

== External online community resources ==
=== wiki-communities ===
* [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MicroFormats meatball:microformats] -- a first page (stub to be reviewed) dedicated to have any review/opinion from the meatballers especially on the wiki-formats.
* [http://communitywiki.org/fr/MicroFormats communitywiki:microformats] -- an old multilingual page with a blockcodemachine proposal.

== See Also ==
* [[advocacy]]
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]

press

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__NOTOC__
<h1> Press </h1>

This page documents the press that [[microformats]] has received. See also microformats [[screencasts]], [[presentations]], [[podcasts]], and [[books]]. Note that some of this press may be in response to [[press-faq|the press FAQ]].

==Press enquiries==
If you are a journalist, wanting to write or broadcast about microformats, please ask on our [irc://irc.freenode.net#microformats #microformats IRC channel] or [[mail|microformats-discuss mailing list]].

==Ongoing==
* [http://news.google.com/news?q=microformat+OR+microformats&scoring=n Google News search for "microformat(s)"]
* [http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=microformat+OR+microformats&ie=UTF8&t=1 Google alert (e-mail) for "microformat(s)"]

=== Blog News ===
Minor news sites that seem like they are actually blogs:
* [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=programmableweb.com&q=microformats&sitesearch=programmableweb.com Search for 'microformats' at programmableweb.com]

=== Wiki News ===

* [http://wiki.site5.com/Microformats the Microformats page] at the Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc. wiki, which I wrote (I'm the wiki's sysop, and main copywriter and editor. --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 10:07, 1 Sep 2007 (PDT))
** Also at the Site5Wiki: [http://wiki.site5.com/XFN XFN]; [http://wiki.site5.com/Semantic_Web/FOAF FOAF]; and [http://wiki.site5.com/Semantic_Web Semantic Web], which really needs my attention. Plus, brand-new as of yesterday: [http://wiki.site5.com/Neogeography Neogeography].

== August 2007 ==
=== URLs of mentions ===
* 2007-08-06 PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2167604,00.asp
* 2007-08-03 SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/03/have-microformats-finally-arrived
* 2007-08-01 WIRED: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/google-maps-tak.html
* 2007-08-01 CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-20/back-to-the-future-of-the-web-what-mattered-most-001526.php

== July 2007 ==
=== URLs of mentions ===
* 2007-07-20 CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/openid-and-microformats-become-socially-acceptable-001494.php
* 2007-07-10 Wired: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/tim-berners-lee.html
* 2007-07-02 Seatle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003770628_techsocial02.html
* 2007-07-02 Web Worker Daily: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/02/powncing-on-the-twitter-bird-or-not/

=== noted and quoted ===
Remove the above two level 3 headings when all URLs of mentions are noted and quoted here.

<ul>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-18 Forbes article on Plaxo Pushes for ''Open Social Web'' references below microformats announcements (http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/07/18/businesswire20070718005301r1.html).
</li>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-17 Plaxo Pushes For "Open Social Web": Endorses and implements key open standards, OpenID and microformats (http://www.plaxo.com/about/releases/release-20070718) <blockquote class="description">...the company has implemented the microformats hCard and hCal as part of the all-new Plaxo 3.0 making it even easier for members to share information and support more mashups in the future. Public profiles, a new feature of the service, now use the hCard format for contact info, giving users the ability use their profile information on any of the growing list of services that consume hCard data.</blockquote>
</li>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-03 "What's next for the Internet" in "CNNMoney.com" syndication of an article from "Business 2.0 Magazine" by Michael V. Copeland. (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htm?postversion=2007070305) <blockquote class="description">"We've had the problem of overpromising in this industry; a lot of us who were working on semantic Web technologies early on saw the potential and got a little excited. It has taken much longer to realize than we thought. One thing Web 2.0 has taught everybody is that simpler is better. Find something useful and iterate on that." <nowiki>[- Nova Spivack]</nowiki>Tom Coates, whose day job at Yahoo involves working on just these issues, thinks the Web 2.0 crowd is already taking care of the problem. He points to tagging and [[microformats]] that add some of the same metadata to webpages that semantic technologies offer."I call it the dirty semantic Web," Coates says from his London office. "It may not be the pristine Berners-Lee view of the world, but it is headed in the right direction." </blockquote>
</li>
</ul>

== June 2007 ==

=== URLs of mentions ===

To be processed into the below noted and quoted format:
* 2007-06-26 Web Worker Daily: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/06/26/location-location-location-get-the-best-out-of-3-presence-apps/
* 2007-06-25 Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/06/25/rumor-internet-explorer-8-beta-coming-by-year-end

=== noted and quoted ===

Remove the above two level 3 headings when all URLs of mentions are noted and quoted here.

<ul>
<li class="vevent">
2007-06-29 "The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz" in "BBC News, Technology" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6252716.stm
<blockquote class="description">Where we find people codifying big blocks of entities - whether in a movie database or books or restaurants, or business entities - I am comfortable taking a pragmatic approach so long as the companies contributing their respective intellectual property are committed to open standards and strategies.It will happen through small pieces loosely joined, and it is emerging already. Different domain specialists will grab different domain patches.Once we begin to have this information we can then put it in [[microformats]] on the web, which are machine-readable. So then in an automated fashion crawlers can take advantage of that structure. ...The web itself is sloppy, loose and unstructured - and these, by the way, are virtues!But in making it easy to add [[microformats]], which are just machine-readable, coded bits of structure, we let machines talk to machines and ambiguity over which restaurant I am blogging about, or which film, or which person, will end.This represents a huge step toward the vision of the semantic web, and will not only create entirely new applications, but will also solve problems that users today have come to accept as part of "life on the web."This structure should be optional, not imposed. The onus is on us, the builders of the tools, to make it brain dead simple to add this structure.</blockquote>
</li>

<li class="vevent">
2007-06-29 '''"Les microformats donnent du sens aux pages web"''' in "01 Informatique" - issue 1911 by Frederic Bordage. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682883268/in/photostream/] with a french interview of Tantek Çelik [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852/in/photostream/][http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/682882852_15a6587a30_m.jpg]
<blockquote class="description" lang="fr">Web Sémantique. Ces formats transforment les pages web en bases de données structurées. L'indexation devient ainsi plus riche et plus pertinente. ''"Une approche du web sémantique pragmatique et simple à mettre en oeuvre"''. C'est ainsi que François Goube, PDG du moteur de recherche JobiJoba.com qualifie les microformats. (...)</blockquote>
</li>

<li class="vevent">
2007-06-21 "Microformats: People First, Machines Second" in "Electronic Design" by William Wong. ED Online ID #15742. (http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15742/15742.html
<blockquote class="description">It's amazing what you can find bouncing around the Internet. I stumbled across microformats while looking for something else. Microformats are a way of embedding semantic information on a Web page. They're designed to augment human-readable versions so software can easily and accurately extract the same information. Also, they're based on a small set of open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>

== January 2007==

* 2007-01-15 ''Government Computer News'' (UK); Microformats get real by Joab Jackson: http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/42930.html
* 2007-01-03 Information Week; Firefox 3: From HTML Renderer To Information Broker by Mitch Wagner: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/01/firefox_3_from.html Discusses the implications of native microformat support in Firefox.
* 2007-01-02 Read/ Write Web; Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_does_microformats_firefox3.php
* 2007-01-01 ''Linux Format Magazine'' (UK); What on earth... are Microformats?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/500478421/

== Related pages ==
<div id="2006"><div id="2005">
{{press-related pages}}
</div></div>

[[Category:Advocacy]]

semacode

2007-09-01T17:10:10Z

CarlaHufstedler: added category

=Semacode=

==Background==

Here is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semacode Semacode] (Semantic barcode) for http://microformats.org/.

Semacodes are a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Matrix Data Matrix] (a type of barcode) resembling a crossword puzzle. By encoding a website's URL they can be quickly captured with a mobile phone's camera and the site accessed via the phone's web browser.

==Graphic==

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/718713806_748f98dda9.jpg?v=0.png

==Resources==

You may also [http://tinyurl.com/35xcuo see the original] or [http://sohne.net/projects/semafox/ generate your own].

==Uses==
The Semacode can be used on posters, in conference programmes, as the final slide in a power point presentation, on garments - list your uses below.

* ...

==Contributor and license==
* I hereby place this image into the public domain [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

==References==
* http://semacode.org/ Semacode Web Site

==See also==
{{branding-see-also}}

[[Category:Tools]]

press

2007-09-01T17:08:32Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* Wiki News */ fixed my typo

__NOTOC__
<h1> Press </h1>

This page documents the press that [[microformats]] has received. See also microformats [[screencasts]], [[presentations]], [[podcasts]], and [[books]]. Note that some of this press may be in response to [[press-faq|the press FAQ]].

==Press enquiries==
If you are a journalist, wanting to write or broadcast about microformats, please ask on our [irc://irc.freenode.net#microformats #microformats IRC channel] or [[mail|microformats-discuss mailing list]].

==Ongoing==
* [http://news.google.com/news?q=microformat+OR+microformats&scoring=n Google News search for "microformat(s)"]
* [http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=microformat+OR+microformats&ie=UTF8&t=1 Google alert (e-mail) for "microformat(s)"]

=== Blog News ===
Minor news sites that seem like they are actually blogs:
* [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=programmableweb.com&q=microformats&sitesearch=programmableweb.com Search for 'microformats' at programmableweb.com]

=== Wiki News ===

* [http://wiki.site5.com/Microformats the Microformats page] at the Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc. wiki, which I wrote (I'm the wiki's sysop, and main copywriter and editor. --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 10:07, 1 Sep 2007 (PDT))
** Also at the Site5Wiki: [http://wiki.site5.com/XFN XFN]; [http://wiki.site5.com/Semantic_Web/FOAF FOAF]; and [http://wiki.site5.com/Semantic_Web Semantic Web], which really needs my attention.

== August 2007 ==
=== URLs of mentions ===
* 2007-08-06 PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2167604,00.asp
* 2007-08-03 SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/03/have-microformats-finally-arrived
* 2007-08-01 WIRED: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/google-maps-tak.html
* 2007-08-01 CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-20/back-to-the-future-of-the-web-what-mattered-most-001526.php

== July 2007 ==
=== URLs of mentions ===
* 2007-07-20 CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/openid-and-microformats-become-socially-acceptable-001494.php
* 2007-07-10 Wired: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/tim-berners-lee.html
* 2007-07-02 Seatle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003770628_techsocial02.html
* 2007-07-02 Web Worker Daily: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/02/powncing-on-the-twitter-bird-or-not/

=== noted and quoted ===
Remove the above two level 3 headings when all URLs of mentions are noted and quoted here.

<ul>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-18 Forbes article on Plaxo Pushes for ''Open Social Web'' references below microformats announcements (http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/07/18/businesswire20070718005301r1.html).
</li>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-17 Plaxo Pushes For "Open Social Web": Endorses and implements key open standards, OpenID and microformats (http://www.plaxo.com/about/releases/release-20070718) <blockquote class="description">...the company has implemented the microformats hCard and hCal as part of the all-new Plaxo 3.0 making it even easier for members to share information and support more mashups in the future. Public profiles, a new feature of the service, now use the hCard format for contact info, giving users the ability use their profile information on any of the growing list of services that consume hCard data.</blockquote>
</li>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-03 "What's next for the Internet" in "CNNMoney.com" syndication of an article from "Business 2.0 Magazine" by Michael V. Copeland. (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htm?postversion=2007070305) <blockquote class="description">"We've had the problem of overpromising in this industry; a lot of us who were working on semantic Web technologies early on saw the potential and got a little excited. It has taken much longer to realize than we thought. One thing Web 2.0 has taught everybody is that simpler is better. Find something useful and iterate on that." <nowiki>[- Nova Spivack]</nowiki>Tom Coates, whose day job at Yahoo involves working on just these issues, thinks the Web 2.0 crowd is already taking care of the problem. He points to tagging and [[microformats]] that add some of the same metadata to webpages that semantic technologies offer."I call it the dirty semantic Web," Coates says from his London office. "It may not be the pristine Berners-Lee view of the world, but it is headed in the right direction." </blockquote>
</li>
</ul>

== June 2007 ==

=== URLs of mentions ===

To be processed into the below noted and quoted format:
* 2007-06-26 Web Worker Daily: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/06/26/location-location-location-get-the-best-out-of-3-presence-apps/
* 2007-06-25 Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/06/25/rumor-internet-explorer-8-beta-coming-by-year-end

=== noted and quoted ===

Remove the above two level 3 headings when all URLs of mentions are noted and quoted here.

<ul>
<li class="vevent">
2007-06-29 "The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz" in "BBC News, Technology" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6252716.stm
<blockquote class="description">Where we find people codifying big blocks of entities - whether in a movie database or books or restaurants, or business entities - I am comfortable taking a pragmatic approach so long as the companies contributing their respective intellectual property are committed to open standards and strategies.It will happen through small pieces loosely joined, and it is emerging already. Different domain specialists will grab different domain patches.Once we begin to have this information we can then put it in [[microformats]] on the web, which are machine-readable. So then in an automated fashion crawlers can take advantage of that structure. ...The web itself is sloppy, loose and unstructured - and these, by the way, are virtues!But in making it easy to add [[microformats]], which are just machine-readable, coded bits of structure, we let machines talk to machines and ambiguity over which restaurant I am blogging about, or which film, or which person, will end.This represents a huge step toward the vision of the semantic web, and will not only create entirely new applications, but will also solve problems that users today have come to accept as part of "life on the web."This structure should be optional, not imposed. The onus is on us, the builders of the tools, to make it brain dead simple to add this structure.</blockquote>
</li>

<li class="vevent">
2007-06-29 '''"Les microformats donnent du sens aux pages web"''' in "01 Informatique" - issue 1911 by Frederic Bordage. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682883268/in/photostream/] with a french interview of Tantek Çelik [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852/in/photostream/][http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/682882852_15a6587a30_m.jpg]
<blockquote class="description" lang="fr">Web Sémantique. Ces formats transforment les pages web en bases de données structurées. L'indexation devient ainsi plus riche et plus pertinente. ''"Une approche du web sémantique pragmatique et simple à mettre en oeuvre"''. C'est ainsi que François Goube, PDG du moteur de recherche JobiJoba.com qualifie les microformats. (...)</blockquote>
</li>

<li class="vevent">
2007-06-21 "Microformats: People First, Machines Second" in "Electronic Design" by William Wong. ED Online ID #15742. (http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15742/15742.html
<blockquote class="description">It's amazing what you can find bouncing around the Internet. I stumbled across microformats while looking for something else. Microformats are a way of embedding semantic information on a Web page. They're designed to augment human-readable versions so software can easily and accurately extract the same information. Also, they're based on a small set of open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>

== January 2007==

* 2007-01-15 ''Government Computer News'' (UK); Microformats get real by Joab Jackson: http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/42930.html
* 2007-01-03 Information Week; Firefox 3: From HTML Renderer To Information Broker by Mitch Wagner: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/01/firefox_3_from.html Discusses the implications of native microformat support in Firefox.
* 2007-01-02 Read/ Write Web; Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_does_microformats_firefox3.php
* 2007-01-01 ''Linux Format Magazine'' (UK); What on earth... are Microformats?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/500478421/

== Related pages ==
<div id="2006"><div id="2005">
{{press-related pages}}
</div></div>

[[Category:Advocacy]]

press

2007-09-01T17:07:46Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* Blog News */ added wiki section with link to Site5's pages

__NOTOC__
<h1> Press </h1>

This page documents the press that [[microformats]] has received. See also microformats [[screencasts]], [[presentations]], [[podcasts]], and [[books]]. Note that some of this press may be in response to [[press-faq|the press FAQ]].

==Press enquiries==
If you are a journalist, wanting to write or broadcast about microformats, please ask on our [irc://irc.freenode.net#microformats #microformats IRC channel] or [[mail|microformats-discuss mailing list]].

==Ongoing==
* [http://news.google.com/news?q=microformat+OR+microformats&scoring=n Google News search for "microformat(s)"]
* [http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=microformat+OR+microformats&ie=UTF8&t=1 Google alert (e-mail) for "microformat(s)"]

=== Blog News ===
Minor news sites that seem like they are actually blogs:
* [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=programmableweb.com&q=microformats&sitesearch=programmableweb.com Search for 'microformats' at programmableweb.com]

=== Wiki News ===

* [http://wiki.site5.com/Microformats the Microformats page] at the Site5 Internet Solutions, Inc. wiki, which I wrote (I'm the wiki's sysop, and main copywriter and editor. --[[User:CarlaHufstedler|Carla]] 10:07, 1 Sep 2007 (PDT))
** Also at the Site5Wiki: [http://wiki.site5.com/XFN XFN]; [http://wiki.site5.com/Semantic Web/FOAF FOAF]; and [http://wiki.site5.com/Semantic_Web Semantic Web], which really needs my attention.

== August 2007 ==
=== URLs of mentions ===
* 2007-08-06 PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2167604,00.asp
* 2007-08-03 SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/03/have-microformats-finally-arrived
* 2007-08-01 WIRED: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/google-maps-tak.html
* 2007-08-01 CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-20/back-to-the-future-of-the-web-what-mattered-most-001526.php

== July 2007 ==
=== URLs of mentions ===
* 2007-07-20 CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/openid-and-microformats-become-socially-acceptable-001494.php
* 2007-07-10 Wired: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/tim-berners-lee.html
* 2007-07-02 Seatle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003770628_techsocial02.html
* 2007-07-02 Web Worker Daily: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/02/powncing-on-the-twitter-bird-or-not/

=== noted and quoted ===
Remove the above two level 3 headings when all URLs of mentions are noted and quoted here.

<ul>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-18 Forbes article on Plaxo Pushes for ''Open Social Web'' references below microformats announcements (http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/07/18/businesswire20070718005301r1.html).
</li>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-17 Plaxo Pushes For "Open Social Web": Endorses and implements key open standards, OpenID and microformats (http://www.plaxo.com/about/releases/release-20070718) <blockquote class="description">...the company has implemented the microformats hCard and hCal as part of the all-new Plaxo 3.0 making it even easier for members to share information and support more mashups in the future. Public profiles, a new feature of the service, now use the hCard format for contact info, giving users the ability use their profile information on any of the growing list of services that consume hCard data.</blockquote>
</li>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-03 "What's next for the Internet" in "CNNMoney.com" syndication of an article from "Business 2.0 Magazine" by Michael V. Copeland. (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htm?postversion=2007070305) <blockquote class="description">"We've had the problem of overpromising in this industry; a lot of us who were working on semantic Web technologies early on saw the potential and got a little excited. It has taken much longer to realize than we thought. One thing Web 2.0 has taught everybody is that simpler is better. Find something useful and iterate on that." <nowiki>[- Nova Spivack]</nowiki>Tom Coates, whose day job at Yahoo involves working on just these issues, thinks the Web 2.0 crowd is already taking care of the problem. He points to tagging and [[microformats]] that add some of the same metadata to webpages that semantic technologies offer."I call it the dirty semantic Web," Coates says from his London office. "It may not be the pristine Berners-Lee view of the world, but it is headed in the right direction." </blockquote>
</li>
</ul>

== June 2007 ==

=== URLs of mentions ===

To be processed into the below noted and quoted format:
* 2007-06-26 Web Worker Daily: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/06/26/location-location-location-get-the-best-out-of-3-presence-apps/
* 2007-06-25 Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/06/25/rumor-internet-explorer-8-beta-coming-by-year-end

=== noted and quoted ===

Remove the above two level 3 headings when all URLs of mentions are noted and quoted here.

<ul>
<li class="vevent">
2007-06-29 "The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz" in "BBC News, Technology" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6252716.stm
<blockquote class="description">Where we find people codifying big blocks of entities - whether in a movie database or books or restaurants, or business entities - I am comfortable taking a pragmatic approach so long as the companies contributing their respective intellectual property are committed to open standards and strategies.It will happen through small pieces loosely joined, and it is emerging already. Different domain specialists will grab different domain patches.Once we begin to have this information we can then put it in [[microformats]] on the web, which are machine-readable. So then in an automated fashion crawlers can take advantage of that structure. ...The web itself is sloppy, loose and unstructured - and these, by the way, are virtues!But in making it easy to add [[microformats]], which are just machine-readable, coded bits of structure, we let machines talk to machines and ambiguity over which restaurant I am blogging about, or which film, or which person, will end.This represents a huge step toward the vision of the semantic web, and will not only create entirely new applications, but will also solve problems that users today have come to accept as part of "life on the web."This structure should be optional, not imposed. The onus is on us, the builders of the tools, to make it brain dead simple to add this structure.</blockquote>
</li>

<li class="vevent">
2007-06-29 '''"Les microformats donnent du sens aux pages web"''' in "01 Informatique" - issue 1911 by Frederic Bordage. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682883268/in/photostream/] with a french interview of Tantek Çelik [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852/in/photostream/][http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/682882852_15a6587a30_m.jpg]
<blockquote class="description" lang="fr">Web Sémantique. Ces formats transforment les pages web en bases de données structurées. L'indexation devient ainsi plus riche et plus pertinente. ''"Une approche du web sémantique pragmatique et simple à mettre en oeuvre"''. C'est ainsi que François Goube, PDG du moteur de recherche JobiJoba.com qualifie les microformats. (...)</blockquote>
</li>

<li class="vevent">
2007-06-21 "Microformats: People First, Machines Second" in "Electronic Design" by William Wong. ED Online ID #15742. (http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15742/15742.html
<blockquote class="description">It's amazing what you can find bouncing around the Internet. I stumbled across microformats while looking for something else. Microformats are a way of embedding semantic information on a Web page. They're designed to augment human-readable versions so software can easily and accurately extract the same information. Also, they're based on a small set of open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.</blockquote>
</li>
</ul>

== January 2007==

* 2007-01-15 ''Government Computer News'' (UK); Microformats get real by Joab Jackson: http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/42930.html
* 2007-01-03 Information Week; Firefox 3: From HTML Renderer To Information Broker by Mitch Wagner: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/01/firefox_3_from.html Discusses the implications of native microformat support in Firefox.
* 2007-01-02 Read/ Write Web; Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_does_microformats_firefox3.php
* 2007-01-01 ''Linux Format Magazine'' (UK); What on earth... are Microformats?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/500478421/

== Related pages ==
<div id="2006"><div id="2005">
{{press-related pages}}
</div></div>

[[Category:Advocacy]]

press

2007-09-01T16:59:17Z

CarlaHufstedler: added category

__NOTOC__
<h1> Press </h1>

This page documents the press that [[microformats]] has received. See also microformats [[screencasts]], [[presentations]], [[podcasts]], and [[books]]. Note that some of this press may be in response to [[press-faq|the press FAQ]].

==Press enquiries==
If you are a journalist, wanting to write or broadcast about microformats, please ask on our [irc://irc.freenode.net#microformats #microformats IRC channel] or [[mail|microformats-discuss mailing list]].

==Ongoing==
* [http://news.google.com/news?q=microformat+OR+microformats&scoring=n Google News search for "microformat(s)"]
* [http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=microformat+OR+microformats&ie=UTF8&t=1 Google alert (e-mail) for "microformat(s)"]

=== Blog News ===
Minor news sites that seem like they are actually blogs:
* [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=programmableweb.com&q=microformats&sitesearch=programmableweb.com Search for 'microformats' at programmableweb.com]

== August 2007 ==
=== URLs of mentions ===
* 2007-08-06 PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2167604,00.asp
* 2007-08-03 SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/03/have-microformats-finally-arrived
* 2007-08-01 WIRED: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/google-maps-tak.html
* 2007-08-01 CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-20/back-to-the-future-of-the-web-what-mattered-most-001526.php

== July 2007 ==
=== URLs of mentions ===
* 2007-07-20 CMSWire: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/openid-and-microformats-become-socially-acceptable-001494.php
* 2007-07-10 Wired: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/tim-berners-lee.html
* 2007-07-02 Seatle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003770628_techsocial02.html
* 2007-07-02 Web Worker Daily: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/02/powncing-on-the-twitter-bird-or-not/

=== noted and quoted ===
Remove the above two level 3 headings when all URLs of mentions are noted and quoted here.

<ul>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-18 Forbes article on Plaxo Pushes for ''Open Social Web'' references below microformats announcements (http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/07/18/businesswire20070718005301r1.html).
</li>
<li class="vevent">
2007-07-17 Plaxo Pushes For "Open Social Web": Endorses and implements key open standards, OpenID and microformats (http://www.plaxo.com/about/releases/release-20070718) <blockquote class="description">...the company has implemented the microformats hCard and hCal as part of the all-new Plaxo 3.0 making it even easier for members to share information and support more mashups in the future. Public profiles, a new feature of the service, now use the hCard format for contact info, giving users the ability use their profile information on any of the growing list of services that consume hCard data.</blockquote>
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2007-07-03 "What's next for the Internet" in "CNNMoney.com" syndication of an article from "Business 2.0 Magazine" by Michael V. Copeland. (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htm?postversion=2007070305) <blockquote class="description">"We've had the problem of overpromising in this industry; a lot of us who were working on semantic Web technologies early on saw the potential and got a little excited. It has taken much longer to realize than we thought. One thing Web 2.0 has taught everybody is that simpler is better. Find something useful and iterate on that." <nowiki>[- Nova Spivack]</nowiki>Tom Coates, whose day job at Yahoo involves working on just these issues, thinks the Web 2.0 crowd is already taking care of the problem. He points to tagging and [[microformats]] that add some of the same metadata to webpages that semantic technologies offer."I call it the dirty semantic Web," Coates says from his London office. "It may not be the pristine Berners-Lee view of the world, but it is headed in the right direction." </blockquote>
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== June 2007 ==

=== URLs of mentions ===

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* 2007-06-26 Web Worker Daily: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/06/26/location-location-location-get-the-best-out-of-3-presence-apps/
* 2007-06-25 Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/06/25/rumor-internet-explorer-8-beta-coming-by-year-end

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2007-06-29 "The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz" in "BBC News, Technology" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6252716.stm
<blockquote class="description">Where we find people codifying big blocks of entities - whether in a movie database or books or restaurants, or business entities - I am comfortable taking a pragmatic approach so long as the companies contributing their respective intellectual property are committed to open standards and strategies.It will happen through small pieces loosely joined, and it is emerging already. Different domain specialists will grab different domain patches.Once we begin to have this information we can then put it in [[microformats]] on the web, which are machine-readable. So then in an automated fashion crawlers can take advantage of that structure. ...The web itself is sloppy, loose and unstructured - and these, by the way, are virtues!But in making it easy to add [[microformats]], which are just machine-readable, coded bits of structure, we let machines talk to machines and ambiguity over which restaurant I am blogging about, or which film, or which person, will end.This represents a huge step toward the vision of the semantic web, and will not only create entirely new applications, but will also solve problems that users today have come to accept as part of "life on the web."This structure should be optional, not imposed. The onus is on us, the builders of the tools, to make it brain dead simple to add this structure.</blockquote>
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2007-06-29 '''"Les microformats donnent du sens aux pages web"''' in "01 Informatique" - issue 1911 by Frederic Bordage. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682883268/in/photostream/] with a french interview of Tantek Çelik [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852/in/photostream/][http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/682882852_15a6587a30_m.jpg]
<blockquote class="description" lang="fr">Web Sémantique. Ces formats transforment les pages web en bases de données structurées. L'indexation devient ainsi plus riche et plus pertinente. ''"Une approche du web sémantique pragmatique et simple à mettre en oeuvre"''. C'est ainsi que François Goube, PDG du moteur de recherche JobiJoba.com qualifie les microformats. (...)</blockquote>
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2007-06-21 "Microformats: People First, Machines Second" in "Electronic Design" by William Wong. ED Online ID #15742. (http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15742/15742.html
<blockquote class="description">It's amazing what you can find bouncing around the Internet. I stumbled across microformats while looking for something else. Microformats are a way of embedding semantic information on a Web page. They're designed to augment human-readable versions so software can easily and accurately extract the same information. Also, they're based on a small set of open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.</blockquote>
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== January 2007==

* 2007-01-15 ''Government Computer News'' (UK); Microformats get real by Joab Jackson: http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/42930.html
* 2007-01-03 Information Week; Firefox 3: From HTML Renderer To Information Broker by Mitch Wagner: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/01/firefox_3_from.html Discusses the implications of native microformat support in Firefox.
* 2007-01-02 Read/ Write Web; Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_does_microformats_firefox3.php
* 2007-01-01 ''Linux Format Magazine'' (UK); What on earth... are Microformats?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/500478421/

== Related pages ==
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{{press-related pages}}
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[[Category:Advocacy]]

presentations

2007-09-01T16:58:40Z

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<h1> microformats presentations </h1>

This page lists various presentations, sessions, papers and posters which have provided explanations and discusions of both [[microformats]] in general, and specific microformats. Check out microformats [[events]] for upcoming presentations. See also microformats [[podcasts]] and [[screencasts]] for audio/video presentations and discussions.

Most recent presentations/sessions listed first.

== 2007 ==
* 2007-06-.. http://tantek.com/presentations/2007/06/microformats-bb-you/
* 2007-05-.. http://tantek.com/presentations/2007/05/microformats-bb-you/
* 2007-05-16 [[events/2007-05-16-XTech|XTech 2007]] presentation by Jeremy Keith: [http://adactio.com/extras/slides/nanotech.pdf Microformats: the nanotechnology of the semantic web].
* 2007-04-30 [[events/2007-04-30-mix07|Microformats: Data Formats That Put Humans First]] [http://tantek.com/presentations/2007/04/microformats/ presentation by Tantek Çelik]
* 2007-03-23 [[events/2007-03-23-stanford|Microformats at Stanford]] [http://tantek.com/presentations/2007/03/microformats/ presentation by Tantek Çelik]
* 2007-03-22 [http://www.webdu.com.au/go/session/microformats--hidden-treasures Microformats—the hidden treasure] by Dmitry Baranovskiy at the [http://www.webdu.com.au/ webDU 2007] conference in Sydney, Australia, 3:00pm–4:00pm
* 2007-02-19, [http://www.glennjones.net/Post/825/DestroyingWalledGardens-MicroformatssyndicationandAPI%e2%80%99s.htm Destroying Walled Gardens - Microformats syndication and API’s] at [http://barcamp.org/BarCampLondon2 BarCamp London 2], UK by Glenn Jones
* 2007-02-13, [http://groups.google.com/group/bristolskillswap/web/february-skillswap-microformats Microformats: The Semantic Web for the Rest of Us] Bristol Skillswap [rtsp://stream.watershed.co.uk/skillswap/2007.02.13.microformats.mov Streaming Video]
* 2007-02-07, [http://north.webdirections.org Web Directions North 2007], [http://north.webdirections.org/detail/venue/ Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside], 1133 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6E3T3, Canada
** [[events/2007-02-07-web-directions-north|Microformats at Web Directions North 2007]], 11:45am-12:45pm, 1:45pm-3:45pm
*** Tantek Çelik (Technorati) - "[http://tantek.com/presentations/2007/02/microformats/ Microformats — The Big Picture]"
*** John Allsopp (Westciv) - "[http://north.webdirections.org/presentations/MicroformatsForDevelopers.pdf Microformats For Developers]"
*** Dan Cederholm (Simplebits) - "[http://north.webdirections.org/presentations/MicroformatsForDesigners.pdf Microformats For Designers]"
* 2007-02-03 [http://www.glennjones.net/Post/823/Microformats%2ctheAK-47oftheweb-WebDD.htm Microformats HTML to API] at [http://www.webdd.org.uk/ WebDD], Reading UK by Glenn Jones

== 2006 ==
* 2006-11-24, Taichi Kaminogoya presented to [http://2xup.org/log/2006/11/27-2219 microformats に触れてみよう] at [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~eb2m-mrt/kaihatsu9.html XML Developers' Day #9], Tokyo, JAPAN.
* October 28th, [http://www.keepthebyte.ch/2006/10/microformats-speech-at-barcamp-zurich.html Microformats Speech at Barcamp Zurich]
* October 10th, Taichi Kaminogoya presented to [http://2xup.org/log/2006/10/10-1800 microformatsがもたらすドキドキする未来] at [http://lp1.cssnite.jp/ CSS Nite LP Disk 1], Tokyo, JAPAN.
* September 28th, [http://www.webdirections.org/microformats/ Microformats] at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia by John Allsopp. [http://www.webdirections.org/microformats/ slides, podcast, live blogging transcript all online now]
* September 27th, [http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/09/microformats-intro/ Microformats Intro] at New Context 2006, Radisson Miyako Hotel, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN. See also [http://flickr.com/photos/tags/microformatsnewcontext2006 photos].
* September 16th, [http://fredericdevillamil.com/presentations/2006/que-sont-les-microformats/index.html Introducing Microformats for resume publishing] in French by Frederic de Villamil at Barcamp Paris 4. Location: 43 rue d'Aboukir, 75002 Paris France
* September 13th, [http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/09/microformats-practices/ Microformats Practices] at [[events/2006-09-13-future-of-web-apps-microformats|Future of Web Apps]] in San Francisco. Location: Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, Lyon Street, San Francisco CA 94123.
* August 26th, Tantek Çelik led the [http://barcamp.org/BarCampStanfordMicroformats BarCampStanfordMicroformats] discussion at room 426, Margaret Jacks Hall, Stanford, CA 94305. There is an [http://barcamp.org/f/MF-barcamp_08_26_2006.ogg Ogg recording of the session].
* July 11th, [http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/07/what-are-microformats/ What are microformats?] at [[events/2006-07-11-an-event-apart-microformats|An Event Apart in New York City]]
* July 6th, [http://yatil.de/webmontag/ka0706/ Mikroformate Erweiterte Semantik von HTML-Dokumenten] (Präsentation von Eric Eggert) Web mondays presentation in german - translation is available here
* June 15th, Phil Wilson presented to the [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/ Institutional Web Management Workshop]
* June 8, Pete Prodoehl presented [http://rasterweb.net/raster/presentations/microformats-20060608/ Microformats] to the Milwaukee Web Design Meetup Group
* May 30, [http://netsquared.org NetSquared] [http://netsquared.org/conference/ Conference], 4:15pm-5:10pm: : [http://netsquared.org/conference/conference-sessions/Mashups A web more woven - the alchemy and practicalities of Mashups]. Tantek Çelik, Taylor McKnight and Chris Messina will discuss the core utility of microformats to publish and share data for/with mashups and other applications. Location: Jordan room, Cisco Systems' Vineyard Conference Center, 260 E. Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA.
* May 25, Brian Suda and Ryan King presented [http://theryanking.com/presentations/2006/www/ Practical Microformats] at WWW 2006 ([http://www.molly.com Molly Holzschlag] was orginally scheduled to give this talk, we filled in at the last minute with our slides from XTech)
* May 24, Kevin Lawver presented [http://presentations.lawver.net/standards/a_microformat_and_proposal_for/ A Microformat and Proposal For Interoperable Widgets]
* May 18, [http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/paper/148 The Intelligent Design of Microformats] by Ryan King at XTech 2006. ([http://theryanking.com/presentations/2006/xtech/talk/ slides]).
* May 16, [http://thebigjc.org/articles/2006/05/16/is-web-2-0-changing-the-software-industry Is Web 2.0 Changing the Software Industry?] by Chris Messina at [http://meshconference.com Mesh Conference]
* May 16, [http://theryanking.com/presentations/2006/xtech/tutorial/ Microformats from the Ground Up] by Brian Suda and Ryan King @ XTech 2006
* April 25, At [http://barcamp.org/TorCampDemoCamp5 DemoCamp #5 in Toronto], [http://blog.davidjanes.com David Janes] demonstrated [http://www.blogmatrix.com/ BlogMatrix] his platform for publish which supports microformats. (see [http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/4/26/1913279.html Accordionguy blogpost]).
* April 23, [http://jazkarta.com/presentations/microformats.pdf/view Microformats and the Future of Syndication] by Nate Aune, AdaptiveWave (CM Pros Summit, San Francisco, CA)
* April 22, Intro to Microformats, [http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/BarCampBangalore Barcamp Bangalore], Bangalore, India, (photos [http://flickr.com/photos/abgpt/133393564/ 1], [http://flickr.com/photos/abgpt/133393545/ 2], [http://flickr.com/photos/abgpt/133393626/ 3])
* March 16, [http://ono.cdlib.org/archives/shimenawa/000219.html Reading 2.0] (see [http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/link_list_reading_20_1.html Tim O'Reilly's notes]), San Francisco, CA
** Building with MicroFormats, [http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/03/17/reading-20-and-microformats/ Chad Dickerson], Yahoo
* March 13, SXSW Interactive, Room 17AB, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX
** [[events/2006-03-13-sxsw-microformats|Microformats: Evolving the Web]], 11:30am-12:30pm
* March 11, SXSW Interactive, Room 17AB, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/03/building-blocks Creating Building Blocks For Independents], 5pm-6pm
** [http://flickr.com/photos/tags/microformatssxsw photos]
* March 7, O'Reilly Emerging Technologies (ETech) Conference, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Ballroom, San Diego, CA
** [[events/2006-03-07-etech-microformats|Microformats intro and lightning demos at O'Reilly ETech conf.]], 5:30pm-6:15pm
** [http://flickr.com/photos/tags/microformatsetech photos]
* March 1, W3C Technical Plenary Day, Hotel Sofitel Cannes Mandelieu Royal Casino, main auditorium, 605 avenuedu Général de Gaulle, BP 49, MANDELIEU LA NAPOULE CEDEX, 06212 MANDELIEU LA NAPOULE, FRANCE
** [[events/2006-03-01-w3c-plenary-microformats|Microformats panel at W3C Technical Plenary Day]], 10:30am-11:30am
*** Ian Hickson (Google) - "A billion documents and no semantics anywhere" (NEED LINK TO SLIDES OR STUDY)
*** Tantek Çelik (Technorati) - "[http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/03/what-are-microformats/ What are microformats?]"
*** Håkon Wium Lie (Opera) - "Cascading Markup Languages — boom!" (NEED LINK TO SLIDES)
*** Rohit Khare (CommerceNet) - "[http://labs.commerce.net/~rohit/Angstro-W3C-TP/ Where Angle Brackets Fear to Tread]"
*** Dan Connolly (W3C) - "[http://www.w3.org/2003/g/talk62/slides Microformats for practical Semantic Web deployment]"
*** Q&A
**** "I'm very excited about '''microformats'''. What I really want is to get all the data out of databases and expressed as part of the Semantic Web." - Tim Berners-Lee. ('''emphasis''' added)
** "Services and the Web" by Mark Nottingham (Yahoo), 12:05pm-12:10pm.
*** Request to W3T/W3M: Go After The "Real" Web: Apache, PHP, Mozilla, Intermediaries and Caches, '''Microformats''', JSON... ('''emphasis''' added)
** Attendees voted the "Microformats" session the best session of the Plenary Day. 6:17pm.
* February 24, Yahoo Speakers Series, Yahoo Mission College Campus, 2nd floor conference room, 2821 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/02/microformats-evolution/ Microformats: Evolving the Web]
* January 18, Apple Web Publishers internal meeting, Apple Computer, Star Trek conference room, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014, 12-1:40pm
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/01/microformats-evolution/ Microformats: Evolving the Web]
* January 10, SD Forum Emerging Technologies SIG, Room H1, Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto, CA, 7-9pm
** Ryan King's presentation, Ernie Prabhakar's presentation, Rohit Khare's presentation
** Microformats panel: Ryan King, Ernie Prabhakar, Rohit Khare, Tantek Çelik, Kevin Marks

== 2005 ==
* December 15, Syndicate Conference, San Francisco, CA
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/12/syndicate-microformats/ Microformats - Emerging syndication types]
* November 26, [http://barcamp.org/index.cgi?TorCamp TorCamp], Teehan+Lax, 460 Richmond St. W, Toronto, ON, CA
** [http://www.davidjanes.com/docs/2005.11.25%20Microformats%20Presentation.ppt powerpoints] (sorry)
** [http://blog.davidjanes.com/mtarchives/2005_12.html#003467 photo]
* November 12, THINK Conference, Santa Cruz room, Chaminade hotel, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
** [[presentation-think-2005-11-12]]
* November 10, (location unknown), by Kevin Yank of SitePoint Pty. Ltd.
** [http://www.sitepoint.com/examples/innovation-on-standards/ Innovating on top of standards - Not around them]
* October 5, [http://web2con.com Web 2.0 Conference], Olympic Room, Argent Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/10/microformats-examples/ Microformats Examples]
* October 4, [http://osafoundation.org/ OSAF], San Francisco, CA, USA
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/10/microformats-evolution/ Microformats: Evolving the Web]
* September 30, [http://we05.com/ Web Essentials 05], Guthrie auditorium, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/09/microformats-evolution/ Microformats: Evolving the Web] ([http://we05.com/podcast/mp3/we05-14-tantek-celik2.mp3 MP3 - incomplete])
* September 29, [http://we05.com/ Web Essentials 05], Guthrie auditorium, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/09/elements-of-xhtml/ The Elements of Meaningful XHTML] ([http://we05.com/podcast/mp3/we05-2-tantek-celik.mp3 MP3])
* September 25, [http://webzine2005.com/ Webzine 2005], Valhalla Room, Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, CA, USA
** [http://theryanking.com/presentations/2005/webzine/ Microformats @ Webzine 2005]
* September 21, Web Intelligence Conference, Compiegne, France
** [http://moloko.itc.it/paoloblog/presentations/presentation_wi05/presentation_wi05.html Page-reRank: using trusted links to re-rank authority] ([http://sra.itc.it/people/massa/publications/wi05_page_rerank_massa_hayes.pdf paper]) - A discussion of using [[vote-links]] to improve [http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html PageRank]
* June 20: Supernova 2005 ([http://supernova2005.com/ Supernova2005 site]), Microformats [http://supernova2005.com/workshops.htm Workshop], Wharton West, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA, USA
** "[http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/06/what-are-microformats/ What are Microformats?]"
** "[http://homepage.mac.com/kevinmarks/supernovatags.html A microformat for tags]"
** [http://wiki.commerce.net/wiki/ZCommerceWS#Microformats commercenet wiki page on the workshop] ([http://labs.commerce.net/wiki/index.php/ZCommerceWS#Microformats 2])
* May 14: Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference ([http://www2005.org/ WWW2005]), 2005, Microformats Dev-Day Track, Makuhari Messe Room 303, Chiba, JAPAN
** "[http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/05/what-are-microformats/ What are Microformats?]" - Tantek Çelik
** "[http://westciv.com/WWW2005/linkmf.html Link Microformats]" - John Allsopp
** "[http://complexspiral.com/events/archive/2005/www2005/potential.html The Potential of Microformats]" - Eric Meyer
** "Distributed Social Networks (XFN Implementations)"
*** Demonstrations of [http://wordpress.org WordPress] & [http://metafilter.com Metafilter]'s builtin XFN support, and XFN search engines [http://rubhub.com/ RubHub] & [http://xhtmlfriends.net/ xhtmlfriends.net].
** "[http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/05/hcard-hcalendar/ People and Events (hCard & hCalendar)]" - Tantek Çelik
** "[http://cnlabs.commerce.net/~rohit/hReview-in-Review/ hReview in Review]" - Rohit Khare
** "Bibliographies (hBib)" - notes captured: [[hbib-discussion-2005-05-14|hBib Discussion 2005-05-14]]
** "[http://westciv.com/WWW2005/xml2mf.html a more meaningful web with microformats]"
** "Semantic Web and Microformats" panel, Room 201

* March 15: "[http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/decentralizednetworks/ Decentralized Social Networks]", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 17AB, Austin TX

* March 14: "[http://2005.sxsw.com/interactive/conference/panels/?action=show&id=IAP0060 How to Trick-Out Your Blog]", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 16B, Austin TX

* March 13
** "[http://complexspiral.com/events/archive/2005/sxsw/ Emergent Semantics]", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 15, Austin TX
** "[http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/leveragingtags.html Leveraging Tags]", as part of the "How to Leverage Solipsism" panel, South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 18A, Austin TX
** "[http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml/ The Elements of Meaningful XHTML]", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 16B, Austin TX

* January 21: [http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/01/attentionxml.html Attention.xml Technology Overview], private presentation, Yahoo! campus, Santa Clara, CA

== 2004 ==

* September 28: "[http://tantek.com/presentations/20040928sdforumws/semantic-xhtml.html Semantic XHTML: Can your website be your API? - Using semantic XHTML to show what you mean]", SD Forum Web Services SIG, eBay's Silicon Valley Conference Center 2161 North First Street San Jose, CA 95131

* September 12: "[http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?MVCeqXHTMLCSSJS Model+View+Controller = XHTML+CSS+JS]", O'Reilly Media Foo Camp 2004, O'Reilly Campus, Wallcreeper room, Sebastopol CA

* September 11: "[http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?AttentionXML Attention.XML]", O'Reilly Media Foo Camp 2004, O'Reilly Campus, Appaloosa room, Sebastopol CA

* September 10: "[http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?SimpleSemanticFormats Simple Semantic Formats]", O'Reilly Media Foo Camp 2004, O'Reilly Campus, Camel room, Sebastopol CA

* March 15: "[http://tantek.com/presentations/2004sxsw/xfn.html Ridiculously Easy Social Software]", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2004, Austin Convention Center Room 17B, Austin TX

* February 11th: "[http://www.tantek.com/presentations/2004etech/realworldsemanticspres.html real world semantics]", O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) 2004 Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA. This presentation was the first public discussion and introduction of the terms "microformat" and "lowercase semantic web". Reprised as a five-minute lightning talk at [http://wiki.oreillynet.com/etech/index.cgi?ConCon ConCon], Rx Gallery, San Francisco CA (16 February 2004).

This page was contributed from [http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/MicroFormatsPresentations the Technorati developers wiki].

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]

podcasts

2007-09-01T16:57:59Z

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<h1> microformats podcasts </h1>

This page lists various podcasts, and other audio and video recordings, which explain and discuss [[microformats]].

Note: podcasts that simply mention microformats without going into more detail discussions of descriptions or uses are not included.

See also microformats [[press]], [[presentations]] and [[screencasts]].

Please feel free to add links to additional podcasts that discuss microformats.

Most recent podcasts listed first.

== To Do ==
* markup this page with [[hatom|hAtom]] so people can subscribe to the podcasts.
* help develop the [[audio-info-proposal|audio-info]] microformat, and once it is available, try marking up this page with it.

== 2007 ==
* 2007-08-28 [http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1611/plaxo-to-ship-online-identity-aggregator-based-on-microformats Plaxo to ship online identity aggregator based on microformats] with support for [[xfn]] and identity consolidation. Plaxo is both releasing their online identity aggregator as open source, and hosting a web service for folks to use identity consolidation. Robert Scoble interviews John McCrea and Joseph Smarr. Time: 29:34min. See [http://scobleizer.com/2007/08/28/plaxo-news-microformats-based-online-identity-aggregator/ related blog post].
* 2007-05-19 [http://adactio.com/journal/1294/ Microformats 1:01—Exporting microformats via bluetooth], a short video demo by Jeremy Keith. Time: 1:01min.
* 2007-03-23 [http://www.podtech.net/home/technology/2477/microformats-guru-tantek-celik Microformats Guru Tantek Celik] interview on microformats, sxsw, vlogging. Time: 4:46min.
* 2007-01-29 [http://pod-serve.com/audiofile/filename/4668/Steve_Ganz.mp3 Edgework: Steve Ganz] 36 MB Steve Ganz, senior Web developer at LinkedIn, talks about how they republished 9 million public profiles using hResume. Time: ??:??
* 2007-01-17 [http://pod-serve.com/audiofile/filename/4499/Jeremy_Keith.mp3 Edgework: Jeremy Keith] 63 MB Jeremy Keith talks about Ajax and Microformats. Time ??:??
* 2007-01-17 [http://pod-serve.com/audiofile/filename/4331/Dan_Cederholm_Interview.mp3 Edgework: Dan Cederholm] 55 MB Dan Cederholm talks about Microformats in Corkd Time ??:??
* 2007-01-05 [http://www.webdirections.org/wds06/microformats.mp3 John Allsopp: "Microformats"] podcast from [http://webdirections.org Web Directions South 2006-09-28]. Time ??:??.

==Related pages==
<div id="2006"><div id="2005">
{{podcast-related-pages}}
</div></div>

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]

buttons

2007-09-01T16:56:00Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* Requests */ added categories

<h1>Microformats Buttons</h1>

There have been requests for buttons for various microformats. Either badges, or buttons that do something with the specific microformats. This page keeps a list of buttons, and requests as well. - [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek]

Added hosted buttons for all the microformats, including the draft ones, as well as instructions on how to make your own buttons. (14 May 2006) - [http://www.wackomenace.co.uk/ Ruben]

==Licensing==

If you add links to buttons you have designed, '''please also include a statement''' that you do one of the following:
*release them into the public domain
*hold copyright, but release all rights as to it use
*license them under a specified free license, e.g. consider using a [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] license, such as [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0].

Thank you.

* Images below hosted at boogdesign.com are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ CC Attribution 2.0 License], see [http://www.boogdesign.com/buttons.html my buttons page] for the Photoshop files if you need them. - Rob Crowther

* Images below hosted at rbach.priv.at are available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 cc-by-3.0 license]. - [[User:RobertBachmann|Robert Bachmann]]

* Images below hosted at synaesthetic.net are available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license]. -- [[User:Kwilson|Kenn Wilson]]

__TOC__

== Buttons ==

=== Microformat Button ===
I've made a button for microformats. Since there are so many microformats and with more to come, just indicating support/ use of might be a good generic approach. The image is free to use. Please copy it to your own hosting account and not link to it.

http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png

I already have a "I use
http://www.crowley.nl/images/microformats.png" on my blog: http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/

- Don Crowley

* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_enabled.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_green.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/emf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mfe_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/mwmf_white.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/smf_white.png

=== [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcalendar.png
* CSS-powered button from [http://www.midgard-project.org/community/events/ Midgard CMS - Event calendar]:

››› hCalendar

Code (white space added for readability):

<pre><nowiki>


&#8250;&#8250;&#8250;

hCalendar

</nowiki></pre>

=== [[hcard|hCard]] ===
* http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png (mirror: http://www.davidjanes.com/images/mf_hcard.png)
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcard.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcard.png
* CSS-powered button, as evidenced at [http://re-run.com/about/microformat-badges microformat badges @ re-run]

=== [[rel-license]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/license.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_rellicense.png

=== [[rel-nofollow]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/nofollow.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_relnofollow.png

=== [[rel-tag]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-tag.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/tag.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_reltag.png

=== [[vote-links|VoteLinks]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/votelinks.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_votelinks.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfn.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xfn.png

=== [http://gmpg.org/xmdp/ XMDP] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xmdp.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xmdp.png

=== [[xoxo|XOXO]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xoxo.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_xoxo.png

===CSS Styles for microformats===
I'm not sure wether this can be under buttons, but I don't know where else to put it. This is a stylesheet containing styles for most microformats. And, it's automatic. I release it under the cc by-sa. Please note that I am new to microformats, and if you can improve this, please do. [[User:Mac Lover|Mac Lover]] 13:25, 13 Apr 2007 (PDT)

[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ License]
[http://alyosha.bendebury.net/microformat-css.zip Zip]

== Buttons for draft formats ==

These may be subject to change if the names of the formats change when they are released.

=== [[adr]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/adr.png

=== [[geo]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/geo.png

=== [[hatom|hAtom]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hatom.png
* http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

=== [[hresume|hResume]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hresume.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hresume.png

=== [[hreview|hReview]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hreview.png

=== [[rel-directory]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/directory.png

=== [[rel-enclosure]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/enclosure.png

=== [[rel-home]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/rel-home.png
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/home.png

=== [[relpayment-research|rel-payment]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/payment.png

=== [[robots-exclusion|Robots Exclusion]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/robots.png

=== [[xfolk|xFolk]] ===
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/xfolk.png

== Make your own buttons ==
=== Style 1 ===

Example: http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png

Use the [http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/ Kalsey Button Maker] with the following settings:
* Outer border: #666666
* Inner border: #ffffff
* Bar position: 25 pixels from the left
* Left box text: >>>
* Left box background: #000000
* Left box text colour: #ffffff
* Left box text start: 7 pixels from the left
* Right box text: (The name of the microformat goes here)
* Right box background: #31757b
* Right box text colour: #ffffff
* Right box text start: 3 pixels from the bar

=== Style 2 ===

Example: http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcal.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 28,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

=== Style 3 ===

Example: http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/hatom.png

# Get the font [http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ Silkscreen]
# Install [http://www.imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick]
# Get the blank icon (http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/button2-blank.png)
# Type:
<pre>convert button2-blank.png
-fill white
-font Silkscreen
-pointsize 8
+antialias
-draw "text 20,10 'button label'"
output.png
</pre>

= Microformats Logos =
Rohit is a very poor CSS hacker, but gave it his best shot. He also [http://labs.commerce.net/~rohit/µf-logo.html rendered it at 72 and 18 points.]

http://microformats.org/img/logo.gif

<div style="position: relative; top:-46px; left:180px">
<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:30px; height: 30px; left:1px; top:10px; position:absolute; -moz-border-radius:5pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:22px; height: 22px; left:11.5px; top:6px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white; -moz-border-radius:4pt;"></div>

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:14px; height: 14px; left:22.5px; top:4px; position:absolute; border-left: 2px solid white;border-bottom: 2px solid white;-moz-border-radius:2pt;"></div>

<div style="font-family:Arial Narrow,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17.5pt;letter-spacing:0px;color:#676767; position: absolute; left:44px; top: -6px">
microformats
</div>
</div>

The following logo as a transparent PNG (linked here from my own server; if you use it, please copy it for yourself):

http://files.synaesthetic.net/public/microformats/microformats1.png

==Palette==

<div style="background-color:#AEE219; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#AEE219</div>

<div style="background-color:#85BC07; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#85BC07</div>

<div style="background-color:#679A06; width:8em; height: 4ex;">#679A06</div>

=Wiki buttons=
For use on this wiki.
*{{NewMarker}} - <nowiki>{{NewMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{SuccessMarker}} - <nowiki>{{SuccessMarker}}</nowiki>
*{{UpdateMarker}} - <nowiki>{{UpdateMarker}}</nowiki>

= Requests =

* Logos for all microformats

* When someone has time, these should be repeated on the page for each respective format.

==See also==

{{branding-see-also}}

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]
[[Category:Specifications]]

advocacy

2007-09-01T16:54:44Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* Microsoft Exchange Server */ spelling typo fixed

<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contant information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Semantic MediaWiki====
*[http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki]
** A semantic version of MediaWiki

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

===ma.gnolia===
*[http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===

Exchange Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]

advocacy

2007-09-01T16:52:32Z

CarlaHufstedler: added category

<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contant information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Semantic MediaWiki====
*[http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki]
** A semantic version of MediaWiki

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

===ma.gnolia===
*[http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

[[Category:Advocacy]]
[[Category:Tools]]

advocacy

2007-09-01T16:51:32Z

CarlaHufstedler: added category

<h1> Advocacy </h1>
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|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 {{SuccessMarker}}.

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.

===hCard===

;See [[hcard-advocacy]]

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* 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

====Television listings====
*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)
**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!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.
* MTV Europe
**Requested at [[User talk:AndySmith]], 2007-06-11. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:59, 11 Jun 2007 (PDT)

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*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====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

==== Event-sites ====
Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contant information to a lot of different places.)
* http://alltomstockholm.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Stockholm (Swedens capital).
* http://www.alltomgoteborg.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Gothenburg (Swedens second largest city).
* http://www.alltommalmo.se A (Swedish) site that hosts information about concerts, pubs, movies, theater, etc in Malmö (Swedens third largest city).

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

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[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]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Wine Reviews====
Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with [[hreview|hReview]]:
* http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
* http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
* http://www.winelifetoday.com/

====Other hReview====
* [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)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====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://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
*http://opencaching.de/
**Requires German speaker

Also:
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===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)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)
*[http://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
**hCard for artist bios, record company details
**hCard for user profiles
**hReview for album ratings
**audio microformat, when ready, for discographies
**Requested, 2007-08-30 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===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]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

== 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 program.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====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 ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

=====GreaseMap=====
*[http://www.vinq.com/greasemap/ GreaseMap]: Geo/ Adr/ hCard/ hCalendar; requested by e-mail 2007-08-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====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]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===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)
** Additional 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]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Semantic MediaWiki====
*[http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki]
** A semantic version of MediaWiki

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===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)

===ma.gnolia===
*[http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

:See [[hcard-advocacy#Successes]]

=== 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]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[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]
**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]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' 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]
**Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link 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]
**GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** 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."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

[[Category:Advocacy]]

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'''Welcome to the microformats wiki!'''

Please start with the [[introduction]] page and read [[how-to-play]] before making any edits.

==Introduction==
* Learn what it means to be [http://microformats.org/wiki/posh <abbr title="Plain Old Semantic HTML">POSH</abbr>] {{NewMarker}}.
* See the [http://microformats.org/about/ about page], [http://microformats.org/ latest news], [[press]], [[presentations]], [[books]], [[podcasts]], & [[screencasts]].
* Have questions? Read the [[faq|frequently asked questions]] and see the [[glossary]] for new terms.
* Want to learn more in person? Check out microformats [[events]].

==Definition==
Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in web pages.

Microformats enable the publishing of higher fidelity information on the Web, providing the fastest and simplest way to support feeds and APIs for your website. See more explanations of [[what-are-microformats|what are microformats]], and [[what-can-you-do-with-microformats|what you can do with them]].

== How to contribute ==

Do you want to help take microformats to the next level? You can:

* [[get-started|Get started]] by adding microformats to your website, services, and products.
* [[advocacy|Advocate]] the use of microformats on other web sites, especially those you use.
* Write a [[testimonial]].
* Do something on the [[to-do|to do list]].
* Join the [[irc|IRC Channel]] and [[mail|mailing lists]] to learn and help answer questions (read the [[mailing-lists#General_guidelines|general guidelines]] before posting).
* [[Main_Page#microformats_wiki_translations|Translate this microformats wiki into other languages]] to make microformats more accessible to readers of languages around the world.
* Find [[:Special:Lonelypages|orphaned]] pages, and add links to them.
* Add a [[:Special:Categories|category]] to [[:Special:Uncategorizedpages|uncategorized pages]].
* Before proposing any new microformats, make sure your website is [[POSH]], [[get-started|uses existing microformats]], and then read the [[process]].

== Specifications ==
[[microformats|Microformats]] open standards specifications.

* [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] - [http://microformats.org/code/hcalendar/creator hCalendar creator]
* [[hcard|hCard]] - [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator]
* [[rel-license]]
* [[rel-nofollow]]
* [[rel-tag]]
* [[vote-links|VoteLinks]]
* [[XFN]] - [http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator XFN creator]
* [[XMDP]]
* [[xoxo|XOXO]]

== Drafts ==
* [[adr|adr]] - for marking up address information
* [[geo|geo]] - for marking up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGS84 WGS84] geographic coordinates (latitude; longitude)
* [[hatom|hAtom]] - syndicating episodic content (e.g. weblog postings)
* [[hresume|hResume]] - for publishing resumes and CVs
* [[hreview|hReview]] - [http://microformats.org/code/hreview/creator hReview creator]
* [[rel-directory]] - to indicate that the destination of a hyperlink is a directory listing containing an entry for the current page
* [[rel-enclosure]] - for indicating attachments (e.g. files) to download and cache
* [[rel-home]] - indicate a hyperlink to the homepage of the site
* [[rel-payment]] - indicate a payment mechanism
* [[robots-exclusion|robots exclusion]]
* [[xfolk|xFolk]]

== Design Patterns ==
{{design_patterns}} 
* [[elemental-microformat|elemental microformats]]
* [[compound-microformat|compound microformats]]

== Exploratory Discussions ==
See: [[exploratory-discussions]] for details of research and analysis of real-world [[examples]], existing formats, and brainstorming of possible new microformats, per the microformats [[process]]. Such work is categorised as being:

*[[exploratory-discussions#Active|Actively being progressed]]
*[[exploratory-discussions#Current|Current, but less active]]
*[[exploratory-discussions#Moribund|Moribund]]
*[[exploratory-discussions#Abandoned|Formally abandoned]] or
*[[exploratory-discussions#Archive|Archived]]

== Examples ==
* [[examples-in-the-wild]]
* [[implementations]]
* [[zen-garden]]

== resources ==
* [[events]]
* [[cheatsheets]] are handy if you need a quick reminder about a particular microformat.
* [[spread-microformats]]
* [[buttons]]
* [[icons]]
* [[demo]] - a page with links for quickly demonstrating microformats working in practice.
* [[semacode|Semacode]]
* [[jobs]]
* [[shortcuts]] to wiki pages with long names
* [[spellcheck|spell-check dictionary]]

== user centric development ==
*[[user-interface]]
*[[data-portability]]
*[[social-network-portability]]

== tools, test cases, additional research ==
The first place to look for examples, code, and test cases is in the pages for each individual microformat. There are only a few cross-cutting tools and services that need to process more than one microformat. This section is intended for editors, parsers, validators, test cases, and other information relevant across multiple microformats.

*[[accessibility]]
*[[faqs-for-rdf]]
*[[icalendar-implementations]]
*[[internationalization]]
*[[parsing-microformats]]
*[[profile-uri-examples-in-wild|Profile URI examples, in the wild]] (Profile URIs for <code>head</code> elements)
*[[selected-test-cases-from-the-web]]
*[http://hg.microformats.org/ Source code repository] -- [[mercurial-quick-start|how to download code from the repository]]
*[[user-profile-examples-in-wild|User profile examples, in the wild]] (User profiles, for social websites)
*[[vcard-implementations]], [[vcard-errata]], [[vcard-suggestions]]
*[[why-are-content-standards-hard]]

== shared work areas ==
* [[to-do]]
* [[microformats-issues]] - issues related to more than one microformat.
* [[external-issues]]
* [http://microformats.org/wiki/delete pages for deletion] 

== microformats wiki translations ==
You may read and edit microformats articles in many other languages:

* languages with over 100 articles
** [[Main_Page-fr|Français (French)]] {{UpdateMarker-fr}}
* languages with over 10 articles
** [[Main_Page-pt-br|Português (Brazilian Portuguese)]]
** [[Main_Page-ja|日本語 (Japanese)]]
* languages with over 2 articles
** [[Main_Page-es|Español (Spanish)]]
** [[Main_Page-de|Deutsch (German)]]
** [[Main_Page-ro|Romanian]]
* elsewhere
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat Wikipedia's article on microformats] has been translated into a number of languages.

See also [[other-languages]], and [[how-to-start-new-translation|how-to-start-a-new-translation]].

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'''Welcome to the microformats wiki!'''

Please start with the [[introduction]] page and read [[how-to-play]] before making any edits.

==Introduction==
* Learn what it means to be [http://microformats.org/wiki/posh <abbr title="Plain Old Semantic HTML">POSH</abbr>] {{NewMarker}}.
* See the [http://microformats.org/about/ about page], [http://microformats.org/ latest news], [[press]], [[presentations]], [[books]], [[podcasts]], & [[screencasts]].
* Have questions? Read the [[faq|frequently asked questions]] and see the [[glossary]] for new terms.
* Want to learn more in person? Check out microformats [[events]].

==Definition==
Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in web pages.

Microformats enable the publishing of higher fidelity information on the Web, providing the fastest and simplest way to support feeds and APIs for your website. See more explanations of [[what-are-microformats|what are microformats]], and [[what-can-you-do-with-microformats|what you can do with them]].

== How to contribute ==
Do you want to help take microformats to the next level? You can:
* [[get-started|Get started]] by adding microformats to your website, services, and products.
* [[advocacy|Advocate]] the use of microformats on other web sites, especially those you use.
* Write a [[testimonial]].
* Do something on the [[to-do|to do list]].
* Join the [[irc|IRC Channel]] and [[mail|mailing lists]] to learn and help answer questions (read the [[mailing-lists#General_guidelines|general guidelines]] before posting).
* [[Main_Page#microformats_wiki_translations|Translate this microformats wiki into other languages]] to make microformats more accessible to readers of languages around the world.
* Find [[:Special:Lonelypages|orphaned]] pages, and add links to them.
* Before proposing any new microformats, make sure your website is [[POSH]], [[get-started|uses existing microformats]], and then read the [[process]].

== Specifications ==
[[microformats|Microformats]] open standards specifications.

* [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] - [http://microformats.org/code/hcalendar/creator hCalendar creator]
* [[hcard|hCard]] - [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator]
* [[rel-license]]
* [[rel-nofollow]]
* [[rel-tag]]
* [[vote-links|VoteLinks]]
* [[XFN]] - [http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator XFN creator]
* [[XMDP]]
* [[xoxo|XOXO]]

== Drafts ==
* [[adr|adr]] - for marking up address information
* [[geo|geo]] - for marking up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGS84 WGS84] geographic coordinates (latitude; longitude)
* [[hatom|hAtom]] - syndicating episodic content (e.g. weblog postings)
* [[hresume|hResume]] - for publishing resumes and CVs
* [[hreview|hReview]] - [http://microformats.org/code/hreview/creator hReview creator]
* [[rel-directory]] - to indicate that the destination of a hyperlink is a directory listing containing an entry for the current page
* [[rel-enclosure]] - for indicating attachments (e.g. files) to download and cache
* [[rel-home]] - indicate a hyperlink to the homepage of the site
* [[rel-payment]] - indicate a payment mechanism
* [[robots-exclusion|robots exclusion]]
* [[xfolk|xFolk]]

== Design Patterns ==
{{design_patterns}} 
* [[elemental-microformat|elemental microformats]]
* [[compound-microformat|compound microformats]]

== Exploratory Discussions ==
See: [[exploratory-discussions]] for details of research and analysis of real-world [[examples]], existing formats, and brainstorming of possible new microformats, per the microformats [[process]]. Such work is categorised as being:

*[[exploratory-discussions#Active|Actively being progressed]]
*[[exploratory-discussions#Current|Current, but less active]]
*[[exploratory-discussions#Moribund|Moribund]]
*[[exploratory-discussions#Abandoned|Formally abandoned]] or
*[[exploratory-discussions#Archive|Archived]]

== Examples ==
* [[examples-in-the-wild]]
* [[implementations]]
* [[zen-garden]]

== resources ==
* [[events]]
* [[cheatsheets]] are handy if you need a quick reminder about a particular microformat.
* [[spread-microformats]]
* [[buttons]]
* [[icons]]
* [[demo]] - a page with links for quickly demonstrating microformats working in practice.
* [[semacode|Semacode]]
* [[jobs]]
* [[shortcuts]] to wiki pages with long names
* [[spellcheck|spell-check dictionary]]

== user centric development ==
*[[user-interface]]
*[[data-portability]]
*[[social-network-portability]]

== tools, test cases, additional research ==
The first place to look for examples, code, and test cases is in the pages for each individual microformat. There are only a few cross-cutting tools and services that need to process more than one microformat. This section is intended for editors, parsers, validators, test cases, and other information relevant across multiple microformats.

*[[accessibility]]
*[[faqs-for-rdf]]
*[[icalendar-implementations]]
*[[internationalization]]
*[[parsing-microformats]]
*[[profile-uri-examples-in-wild|Profile URI examples, in the wild]] (Profile URIs for <code>head</code> elements)
*[[selected-test-cases-from-the-web]]
*[http://hg.microformats.org/ Source code repository] -- [[mercurial-quick-start|how to download code from the repository]]
*[[user-profile-examples-in-wild|User profile examples, in the wild]] (User profiles, for social websites)
*[[vcard-implementations]], [[vcard-errata]], [[vcard-suggestions]]
*[[why-are-content-standards-hard]]

== shared work areas ==
* [[to-do]]
* [[microformats-issues]] - issues related to more than one microformat.
* [[external-issues]]
* [http://microformats.org/wiki/delete pages for deletion] 

== microformats wiki translations ==
You may read and edit microformats articles in many other languages:

* languages with over 100 articles
** [[Main_Page-fr|Français (French)]] {{UpdateMarker-fr}}
* languages with over 10 articles
** [[Main_Page-pt-br|Português (Brazilian Portuguese)]]
** [[Main_Page-ja|日本語 (Japanese)]]
* languages with over 2 articles
** [[Main_Page-es|Español (Spanish)]]
** [[Main_Page-de|Deutsch (German)]]
** [[Main_Page-ro|Romanian]]
* elsewhere
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat Wikipedia's article on microformats] has been translated into a number of languages.

See also [[other-languages]], and [[how-to-start-new-translation|how-to-start-a-new-translation]].

orphans

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cite-rel

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= Cite-rel Draft Specification 2006–02–21 =

=== Authors ===
* EranGloben
* RyanKing

=== Acknowledgements ===
Thanks to Tantek Çelik for his inspiration and help with the original [http://theryanking.com/blog/archives/2005/05/06/hvia/ hVia specification] which eventually evolved into this.

=== Copyright ===
This specification is (C) 2005-2006 by the authors. However, the authors intend to submit this specification to a standards body with a liberal copyright/licensing policy such as the GMPG (http://gmpg.org/), IETF (http://ietf.org/), and/or W3C (http://w3.org). Anyone wishing to contribute should read their copyright principles, policies and licenses (e.g. the GMPG Principles (http://gmpg.org/principles)) and agree to them, including licensing of all contributions under all required licenses (e.g. CC-by 1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/) and later), before contributing.

=== Patents ===
This specification is subject to a royalty free patent policy, e.g. per the W3C Patent Policy (http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/), and IETF RFC3667 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3667.txt) & RFC3668 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3668.txt).

== Abstract ==
This document is the initial draft for the proposed cite-rel microformat. The author(s) wish to encourage anyone reading this document to offer their feedback, critique or opinion regarding the proposed microformat. You may do so on the distributed-discussion-issues page.

cite-rel is one of several microformats. By adding rel values to an XHTML CITE tag, a blog post (for example) can indicate its place in a distributed conversation.

Sample Simon said in
<cite class="rev-reply">
<a href="http://example.com/blog/?p=1">Example post</a>
</cite>

The author indicates that the post containing the above markup is in reply to the post at http://example.com/blog/?p=1
This assertion will typically apply to a single blog post (or other such element in an online discussion forum).

Other relationships between pages or posts are also possible, for example via links, updates of previous versions and re-blogging (or forwarding) of content.

== Scope ==
Cite-rel is specifically designed for tracking distributed conversations carried out over several online discussion forums.

This document does not cover issues related to describing blogs, defining the exact scope of a blog post and other meta-data related to it or proper formats for citation.

== Format ==
===In general===

The general structure of cite-rel is based on simple XHTML building blocks:

<cite id="ID" class="RELATION"><a href="SOURCE">source</a></cite>
<blockquote cite="#ID">
quoted text
</blockquote>

The intended semantic meaning of the above structure is “this document cites the document referenced in the link. The relationship between is as described by RELATION. The authors believe that this is a good general format for simple HTML citations. Optionally you may express the connection between the quoted text and the cited source by using the "cite" attribute in the quote/blockquote element.

===Relationship values===
Cite-rel covers the following possible relationships between documents:
* Via – a hat-tip or via link, commonly used by bloggers to give credit to someone for providing the information to the blogger.
* Reply – a reply, as one might see in Email or Usenet discussions.
* Forward – repeating a post or part of a post as one might forward an Email message.
* Update – an updated version as one might see in published standards.

All the above relationships (besides via) can be used on both original and follow-up post. To make the relationship explicitly clear we use rel and rev prefixes on those relationships in the same manner that one might use a rel or rev attribute. The resulting relationship class names are as follows.
* via
* rev-reply (this document is in reply to the cited document)
* rel-reply (the cited document is in reply to this one)
* rev-forward
* rel-forward
* rev-update
* rel-update

== Examples ==
Via: <cite class="via">
<a href="http://example.com/blog/post=17"> Mr. Example </a>
</cite>

In reply to <cite class="rev-reply">
<a href="http://Example.com/your-blog-annoys-me">
this post</a></cite>
by <a href="http://theRyanKing.com/"> Ryan King </a>.
*INSERT FLAME HERE*

This is an update to my
<cite id="cow_cite" class="rev-update">
<a href="http://Example.com/blog/?post=17">previous post</a>
</cite>
on this topic where I claimed that:
<blockquote cite="#cow_cite">
Cows can fly.
</blockquote>
Well, I now have proof!

Ryan had some
<cite class="rel-reply">
<a href="http://theryanking.com/blog/?post=1">
additional ideas
</a>
</cite>
about the format.

== XMDP profile ==
see [[cite-rel-profile|XMDP Profile]]

== Implementations ==
This section is informative. The following implementations have been developed which either generate or parse cite-rel. If you have a cite-rel implementation, feel free to add it to the top of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page.
* ...

=== References ===
Normative References
* HTML 4 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/)
* XHTML (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/)
* XMDP (http://gmpg.org/xmdp/)
Informative References
* This document was originally cloned from the rel-directory specification.
* Distributed-conversation-examples
* Distributed-conversation-brainstorming

=== Commentary ===
For discussion of cite-rel see [[distributed-conversation-brainstorming]] and [[distributed-conversation]].

[[Category:Specific Microformats]]

citation

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<h1> Citation microformat efforts </h1>

This wiki page outlines the overall effort to develop a citation microformat. We are documenting current examples of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation cites/citations] on the web today, their implicit/explicit schemas, and current cite/citation formats, with the intent of deriving a cite microformat from that research.

__TOC__

;Authors
:[http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik]
:[http://suda.co.uk/ Brian Suda]
:[http://www.inkdroid.org Ed Summers]

== Copyright ==
{{MicroFormatCopyrightStatement2004}}
* [[User:Tantek|Tantek]]: I release all my contributions to this specification into the public domain and I encourage the other authors to do so as well.
** When all authors/editors have done so, we can remove the MicroFormatCopyrightStatement template reference and replace it with the MicroFormatPublicDomainContributionStatement.
* [[User:Brian|Brian Suda]]: I release all my contributions to this specification into the public domain and I encourage the other authors to do so as well.

== Semantic XHTML Design Principles ==
{{semantic-xhtml-design-principles}}

== Example Citations ==
[[citation-examples|Citation Examples]] are citations found in the wild that could benefit from semantic mark-up. This is a growing list of examples from all sorts of places including W3C specifications, RFCs and others. These are the examples which will determine the schema for the citation microformat.

== Known Citation Formats ==
The [[citation-formats|Citation Formats Page]] will be a running tab of known formats for publishing citations.

Eventually, I would like to see a chart of how each value from the implicit schema determined by the [[citation-examples]] is represented in each format, and what formats have additional properties that do not map between them. (For example, Format1 calls 'author' 'author', in format2 'author' is called 'writer'. etc)

== Issues ==
The [[citation-issues]] page is intended to capture ongoing issues.

== To Do ==
* [[existing-classes|Using existing class names]] and creating new names, create property names for the profile
* Based on implicit schemas in [[citation-examples]], and terms from one or more [[citation-formats]], do some [[citation-brainstorming]] for a simple citation microformat.
* Create additional strawman proposals

== Modularity ==
My hope for this microformat is that it can be a sort of module that can be used in other microformats. Once this is developed and flushed out, citation references could easily be used for publications on a Resume/CV, therefore the citation microformat would be a module (subset) of all the possible Resume Values.

Other Microformats that could use the Citation Module
* [[hresume|hResume]]
* [[work-of-art]]

Other Microformats that the Citation Module will use
* [[hcard|hCard]] encodings for things like Author, Publisher (people and companies)
* [[hatom|hAtom]] encodings as a possible container, and author/date-time properties
* [[rel-tag]] encoding for keywords
* [[rel-license]] encoding for copyright

== References ==
=== Informative References ===
* [http://ocoins.info/ COinS]
* [http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/ XMLResume]: if part of the drive for citations is for publications for a resume/CV then some of this information could be useful
* [http://www.citeulike.org/ CiteUlike] is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading
* [http://www.connotea.org/ Connotea] is a scientific bookmarking service from Nature.
* [http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue43/chudnov/ OpenURL] with Autodiscovery
* [http://cipolo.med.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/gcs-pcs-list "Gather, Create, Share" and "Personal Collection Systems" memes, and systems implementing either or both]
* [http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/ Metadata Object Description Schema] developed by the Library of Congress
* [http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dc-citation-guidelines/ Guidelines for Encoding Bibliographic Citation Information in Dublin Core Metadata]
* [http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/formats/bibtex.html BibTeX reference] from Dana Jacobsen
* [http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_intro.asp RIS Format Specification] from Thomson ResearchSoft, makers of ReferenceManager
* [http://www.zotero.org/ Zotero] - "Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources"
*[http://www.doi.org/ DOI] ([http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/guidelines.html CrossRef Guidelines] for use of DOIs in citations)
* [http://info-uri.info/ INFO URI] (URI scheme for representing legacy namespaces)
*[http://www.isbn-international.org/ ISBN] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number ISBN on Wikipedia])
*[http://www.issn.org/ ISSN] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Serial_Number ISSN on Wikipedia])
* [http://opcit.eprints.org/ Open Citation Project] - OpCit, a three year (1999-2002)R&D project funded by the Joint NSF - JISC International Digital Libraries Research Programme.

== See Also ==
* [[citation-examples]]
* [[citation-examples-markup]]
* [[citation-formats]]
* [[citation-brainstorming]]
* [[citation-faq]]
* [[citation-issues]]

[[Category:Specific Microformats]]
[[Category:Tools]]

audio-info

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see
*[[audio-info-brainstorming]]
*[[audio-info-examples]]
*[[audio-info-issues]]

[[Category:Specific Microformats]]

assistive-technology

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<h1>assistive technology</h1>

This page is for documenting currently known [[accessibility]] assistive technologies (implementations) that are being used in the wild for the purpose of testing any particular microformats and microformats techniques to determine their impact on assistive technologies.

__TOC__

== What to add ==

=== Only accessible assistive technologies ===
Rather than duplicating lists elsewhere on the Web (e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screen_readers Wikipedia's Comparison of screen readers]), please only add assistive technologies that you, or someone you know (such as a user of an assistive technology that you are in touch with) has access to for testing purposes. This will help keep the testing "real world" on an ongoing basis, because if no one has access to an assistive technology, then testing it is an unreasonable (purely theoretical) expectation.

=== Please provide ===
When adding an assistive technology to the list(s) below, please provide:
* Your name / name of person who has access to the assistive technology for testing purposes
* Name of assistive technology
* URL to home page for the technology, and URL(s) to purchase if available
* version number
* when published/released
* estimated number of users if known (even rough estimates are ok), along with date of estimate (ideally with a citation).

=== Note their bugs too ===
In addition, by keep tracking of various different assistive technologies, their versions, their bugs/shortcomings, and any non-standards-compliant behavior, especially when such behavior interferes with microformats on the page, we can focus our efforts on suggesting improvements for them accordingly.

== Screen Readers ==
General marketshare numbers for screen readers:
* 2003 USA: JAWS 65%, GW-Micro Window-Eyes 35%. According to [http://www.redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html a study of screen reader use published in December 2003], a spokesperson for the US National Federation of the Blind estimated that in the USA, JAWS had 65% of the screen reader market and GW-Micro Window-Eyes had 35%; also JAWS was the software most commonly used by U.S. federal workers.

=== JAWS ===
Publisher: Freedom Scientific
Total users as of 2002: [http://web.archive.org/web/20021015235548/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/mswitness/2002/hofstader.asp "There are approximately 80,000 registered users of JAWS"] - Chris Hofstader of Freedom Scientific. Presumably world-wide users of any version of JAWS.

==== Testing possibilities ====
You can download demo versions of JAWS that are limited to run for about half an hour per Windows session. Unfortunately, Freedom Scientific considers testing web standards support in JAWS demos to be a breach of its EULA. Alternative, you could submit a test-case to end users at one of the [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_support/User_Groups.asp JAWS mailing lists].

==== Documentation ====
*[http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_support/doc_screenreaders.asp Official manuals].
*[http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/Surfs_Up/_Surfs_Up_Start_Here.htm Official tutorial about surfing the web with JAWS].

==== Extensibility ====
JAWS is scriptable, and some scripts attempt to improve web access, such as Jamal Mazrui's [http://www.freelists.org/archives/guispeak/04-2007/msg00010.html HomerKit].

==== Release notes ====
* [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws80fea.asp JAWS 8] (November 2006).
* [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws710fea.asp JAWS 7.10] (June 2006).
* [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws70fea.asp JAWS 7] (October 2005). Perhaps the most commonly used version of JAWS).
* [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws620fea.asp JAWS 6.2]. Seemingly the [http://www.kanhan.com/jaws/ last version of JAWS adapted for use in China] (see also [http://www.kanhan.com/webpage/eng/E_news.php?news=51 English summary]).
* [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws610fea.asp JAWS 6.1].
* [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws60intro.asp JAWS 6] (2005). Many JAWS-related mailing list correspondents use a version of 6.
* [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws510intro.asp JAWS 5.1] (2004).
* [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws5intro.asp JAWS 5] (2004). A few correspondents use 5 or earlier.
* [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/DL_JAWS451.asp JAWS 4.51] This is the earliest version recently spotted on JAWS-related mailing lists.

=== GW Micro Window-Eyes ===

==== Test possibilities ====
Volunteer testers: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis (webdev not user).

Like Freedom Scientific, [http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/Demo/ GW-Micro offer an otherwise fully-functional demo] of their latest release which can only be run for about half an hour per Windows session. Unlike Freedom Scientific, [http://www.gwmicro.com/Developers/ GW-Micro encourage developers to test with the demo]. You can also download the demo for an earlier version, 5.5, from [http://www.beyondsight.com/demo.htm Beyond Sight].

Alternatively, you could submit a test-case to one of the [http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Email_Lists/ Window-Eyes users' mailing lists], as [http://www.gwmicro.com/Developers/Web/ suggested by GW-Micro themselves].

==== Extensibility ====
Window-Eyes "set files" map functionality to applications.

==== Documentation ====
*[http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/Manual/HTML/ Official manual].
*[http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Knowledge_Base/?kbnumber=GWKB1040 Window-Eyes and Firefox Extensions].
*[http://www.gwmicro.com/Support/Knowledge_Base/?kbnumber=GWKB1044 Window-Eyes and ActiveX].
*[http://www.gwmicro.com/Audio_Video_Archive/Window-Eyes_Tutorials/ MP3 tutorials].
*[http://www.gwmicro.com/Developers/Web/ Information for web developers].

==== Release Notes ====

* [http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/Version_History/ Release notes for most versions].

=== MicroPower Virtual Vision ===
Brazilian screen reader.

==== Userbase ====
The [http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/vv-l/ Yahoo! Group devoted to Virtual Vision] has 226 members (as of 2007-05-01).

==== Testing possibilites ====
Submit a testcase to the [http://www.micropower.com.br/v3/pt/acessibilidade/lista.asp Virtual Vision mailing list].

==== Release notes ====
*[http://www.micropower.com.br/v3/pt/acessibilidade/vv5/index.asp Virtual Vision 5.5]

=== PC-Talker ===
Japanese screen reader.

==== Userbase ====
Along with 95 Reader, PC-Talker is more commonly used than the Japanese edition of JAWS, according to [http://www.w4a.info/2006/prog/6-watanabe.pdf Takayuki Watanabe and Masahiro Umegaki, Capability Survey of Japanese User Agents and Its Impact on Web Accessibility (2006) (PDF)].

==== Test possibilities ====
Probably the best bet would be to contact Watanabe.

==== Documentation ====
*[http://www.aok-net.com/products/pctalker.htm Kochi System Development PC-Talker]

=== 95 Reader ===
Japanese screen reader.

==== Userbase ====
Along with PC-Talker, 95 Reader is more commonly used than the Japanese edition of JAWS, according to [http://www.w4a.info/2006/prog/6-watanabe.pdf Takayuki Watanabe and Masahiro Umegaki, Capability Survey of Japanese User Agents and Its Impact on Web Accessibility (2006) (PDF)].

==== Test possibilities ====
Probably the best bet would be to contact Watanabe.

==== Documentation ====
* [http://www.ssct.co.jp/barrierfree/95reader/ 95 Reader]

== See Also ==
* [[accessibility]]
* [[assistive-technology-abbr-results]]

[[Category:Tools]]
[[Category:Accessibility]]

algorithm-nearest-in-parent

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This algorithm will return all the elements in a DOM that meet the <code>condition_test</code> by checking each node in the parent hierarchy above the <code>start_element</code> on up. Once a result is found at any level of the parent hierarchy, we stop checking.

<pre><nowiki>
def nearest_in_parent(start_element, condition_test):
p = start_element.parent
while p:
as = []
for c in ordered_depth_first_element_iter(p):
if condition_test(c):
as.append(c)

if as:
return as

p = p.parent

return None
</nowiki></pre>

[[Category:Tools]]

adr

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= adr =
http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/adr.png

'''adr''' (pronounced "adder"; FAQ: [[hcard-faq#Should_I_use_ADDRESS_for_hCards|"why 'adr'?"]]) is a simple format for marking up address information, suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. '''adr''' is a 1:1 representation of the ''adr'' property in the vCard standard ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt RFC2426]) in XHTML, one of several open [[microformats|microformat]] standards. It is also a property of [[hCard]].

__TOC__

== Draft Specification ==
; Editor/Author
: [http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik] ([http://technorati.com Technorati, Inc.])

=== Copyright ===
Per the public domain release on [[User:Tantek|my user page]], this specification is released into the public domain.

{{MicroFormatPublicDomainContributionStatement}}

=== Patents ===
{{MicroFormatPatentStatement}}

=== Inspiration and Acknowledgments ===
Thanks to everyone who participated in the [[geo-bof-2005-06-30|Geo Microformat BOF at O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference]], and in particular to [http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ Nat Torkington] and Vee McMillen of [http://oreilly.com O'Reilly] for [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2005/view/e_sess/7476 arranging and hosting the BOF].

== Introduction and Background ==
The vCard standard ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt RFC2426]), has been broadly and interoperably implemented (e.g. Apple's Address Book application). The [[hcard|hCard]] microformat has similarly received significant adoption, from numerous sites publishing the format, to hCard to vCard proxies, to clientside javascript parsers.

At the [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where/ Where 2.0 conference] in June 2005, there was widespread recognition that the community needed a way to simply and easily publish visible, extractable, address information on the Web, given how often bloggers, and numerous other sites publish address information. The [[geo-bof-2005-06-30|geo microformat BOF]] discussed this very topic, and concluded with a consensus decision to just try using ''adr'' from vCard/hCard.

This specification introduces the '''adr''' microformat, which is a 1:1 representation of the aforementioned ''adr'' property from the vCard standard, by simply reusing the ''adr'' property and sub-properties as-is from the [[hcard|hCard]] microformat.

Publishers can both embed '''adr''' addresses directly in their web pages and feeds, as well as markup existing addresses in the context of the rest of the information in their web pages and feeds.

If the publisher knows and is publishing the ''name'' of the location in addition to its address, then the publisher MUST use [[hcard|hCard]] instead of just '''adr''' to publish the name and address of the location.

== Semantic XHTML Design Principles ==
{{semantic-xhtml-design-principles}}

== Format ==
=== Singular Properties ===

Note that all the properties in '''adr''' are singular properties, and thus the first descendant element with that class should take effect, any others being ignored.

=== Human vs. Machine readable ===

If an <code><abbr></code> element is used for a property, then the <code>title</code> attribute of the <code><abbr></code> element is the value of the property, instead of the contents of the element, which instead provide a human presentable version of the value.

Similarly, if an <code><img></code> element is used for one or more properties, it must be treated as follows:
# For the <code>PHOTO</code> property and any other property that takes a <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> as its value, the <code>src</code> attribute provides the property value.
# For other properties, the <code><img></code> element's <code>alt</code> attribute is the value of the property.

=== Value excerpting ===

Sometimes only part of an element which is the equivalent for a property should be used for the value of the property. For this purpose, the special class name <code>value</code> is used to excerpt out the subset of the element that is the value of the property. See [[hcard|hCard]] for details on this.

=== Root Class Name ===

The root class name for an '''adr''' address is <code>adr</code>.

=== Property List ===

This is the list of properties in '''adr''', taken from [[hcard|hCard]]:

* <code>post-office-box</code>
* <code>extended-address</code>
* <code>street-address</code>
* <code>locality</code>
* <code>region</code>
* <code>postal-code</code>
* <code>country-name</code>

The <code>type</code> sub-property is omitted because without the context of a type of address for ''whom'', it doesn't make much sense.

=== XMDP Profile ===

See [[hcard-profile]] for the [http://gmpg.org/xmdp XMDP] profile of hCard which contains the above complete list of properties, with references to their RFC 2426 definitions.

=== Parsing Details ===
See [[hcard-parsing|hCard parsing]], with the only difference being that "adr" is the root class name, rather than "vcard".

== Examples ==
This section is informative.

=== Sample adr ===

Here is a sample <code>adr</code>:

<pre><nowiki>
<div class="adr">
<div class="street-address">665 3rd St.</div>
<div class="extended-address">Suite 207</div>
San Francisco,
CA
94107
<div class="country-name">U.S.A.</div>
</div>
</nowiki></pre>

which might be displayed as:

<div class="adr">
<div class="street-address">'''665 3rd St.'''</div>
<div class="extended-address">'''Suite 207'''</div>
'''San Francisco''',
'''CA'''
'''94107'''
<div class="country-name">'''U.S.A.'''</div>
</div>

Note that this is a '''live''' <code>adr</code> microformat, which will be found on this page by parsers.

=== More Examples ===

See [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples#3.2.1_ADR_Type_Definition hCard example ADR] for more examples.

See [http://microformats.org/wiki/adr-examples adr examples] for additional uses of ADR.

== Examples in the wild ==
This section is '''informative'''.

The following sites have published adrs, outside their normal context of hCards, and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc., in addition to [[hcard|hCard]] examples in the wild. If you find adrs outside of hCards anywhere else, feel free to add them to the top of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page.

* ...
* ...

(See also [[hcard-examples-in-wild]])

== Implementations ==
This section is '''informative'''.

The following implementations have been developed which either generate or parse adrs outside the context of hCards. If you have an adr implementation, feel free to add it to the top of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page.

* [http://code.highearthorbit.com/greaseroute/index.php GreaseRoute] is a GreaseMonkey user script (also available as a simple Firefox Extension) which will add icons for displaying the location, or route to, an [[adr]] using a MapQuest map. The route is displayed from the starting location based on the viewer's IP-Address as determined by the [http://hostip.info HostIP] geolocation service.

* [http://code.highearthorbit.com/greaseroute/index.php GreaseRouteEmbed] is another GreaseMonkey user script that will actually embed a route image in the webpage when the user clicks the "route" link.

* [http://georss.org/geopress GeoPress] is a [http://wordpress.org WordPress] plugin that supports embedding adrs, geo, maps (dynamically switchable between Google-Yahoo-Microsoft Maps), and [http://georss.org GeoRSS] feeds.

* [http://placenamehere.com/TXP/pnh_mf/ pnh_mf] is a plugin for [http://textpattern.com/ Textpattern] that supports embedding adrs and other microformats in templates and blog posts. Written by [http://placenamehere.com/ Chris Casciano].

* The [http://tantek.com/microformats/hcard-creator.html hCard creator], though it creates complete hCards, can also be used simply to create adrs by filling out the address portion and simply copy and pasting the <div class="adr"> element and its contents.

== References ==
=== Normative References ===
* [[hcard|hCard]]

=== Informative References ===
* [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt vCard RFC2426] ([http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/rfc2426 HTML reformatted version of RFC2426])
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/ XHTML 1.0 SE]

=== Similar Work ===
* [[geo]]
* [[hcalendar|hCalendar]]
* [[XOXO]]

== Work in progress ==
This specification is a work in progress. As additional aspects are discussed, understood, and written, they will be added.

== Discussions ==

* See [http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/referer.html blogs discussing this page].

=== Q&A ===
* If you have any questions about hCard, check the [[hcard-faq|hCard FAQ]] first, and if you don't find answers, add your questions! (Odds are that any '''adr''' question will apply to [[hCard]] as well).
* See also [http://microformats.org/discuss/ for other methods of feedback].

=== Issues ===
* Please add any issues with the specification to the separate [[hcard-issues|hCard issues]] document. Ditto.

== Related Pages ==
{{adr}}

[[Category:Specific Microformats]]

actiontastic-syntax

2007-09-01T16:42:06Z

CarlaHufstedler: added category

<h1>Actiontastic Syntax</h1>

Actiontastic is a free tool for getting things done.

The syntax listed works with the app's Quicksilver plug-in but is intended for use in any GTD-style application, online or offline. For example, the Jabber protocol could be used to send information to [http://actionatr.com Actionatr] or other productivity-focused web applications.

The conventions were formulated from user requests but match closely that of the Quicksilver syntax used by [http://kinkless.com Kinkless GTD]. The goal of this page is to move from an Actiontastic-specific syntax to one that is shared by similar apps in order to promote cross-application collaboration.

See also: [http://kaboomerang.com/blog/category/actiontastic/ Kaboomerang Blog - Actiontastic Category]

== Markers ==

* project: >
* context: @
* notes: --

== Usage ==

When a project, context or action is encountered, it is created if not found. Whitespace between a marker and its content is optional.

* '''add inbox item:''' inbox item name
* '''add inbox item with notes''': inbox item name -- notes go here
* '''create context''': @context (or @ context)
* '''create project''': >project (or > project)
* '''add action to project x''': do something > project x
* '''add action to project x in context b''': do something > project x @ context b (or do something >project x@context b)
* '''add action with notes to project x in context b''': do something > project x @ context b -- notes go here
* '''append notes for project x''': > project x -- notes go here and will be appended to existing notes

[[Category:Tools]]

abbr-design-pattern

2007-09-01T16:41:23Z

CarlaHufstedler: added category

<h1> Abbr design pattern </h1>

__TOC__

== Purpose ==
* Use the [[abbr-design-pattern]] to make text that is human readable also formally machine readable
* Avoiding using the [[abbr-design-pattern]] to re-encode human text or to hide data

== How to use it ==
* enclose the human-friendly text that you want to make machine readable with <code><abbr></code>
* as per the [[class-design-pattern]], add the appropriate <code>class</code> attribute to the <code>abbr</code> element
* add a <code>title</code> attribute to the <code>abbr</code> element with the machine readable data as the value

== Example ==
The [[datetime-design-pattern]] formally encodes (the notoriously unparsable) datetimes into an <code>abbr</code> element.

Before:

<pre>
The party is at 10 o'clock on the 10th.
</pre>

After:

<pre>
The party is at
<abbr class="dtstart" title="20051010T10:10:10-0100">10 o'clock on the 10th</abbr>.
</pre>

==Alternative presentations==
Note that the following are all equivalent, to a microformat parser:

<pre>
20070501

2007-05-01

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501">1 May 2007</abbr>

<abbr class="dtstart" title="2007-05-01">1 May 2007</abbr>

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501">1st May 2007</abbr>.

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501">May 1st 2007</abbr>.

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501">The first of May, 2007</abbr>.

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501">2007-05-01</abbr>.

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501">Tuesday, 1 May 2007</abbr>

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501">2007, day 121</abbr>

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501">May Day, 2007</abbr>

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501" lang="FR">1er mai, 2007</abbr>

<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501" lang="ES">1 de mayo, 2007</abbr>
</pre>

and the following may be used in, say, a list, table, or page, headed "2007":

<pre>
<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070501">1 May</abbr>
</pre>

== Discussion ==
''This discussion is culled from [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-October/001277.html here]''. Consider two possible uses for the [[abbr-design-pattern]]:

<ol>
<li>
using ABBR to encode machine readable data around human readable data

<pre>
<abbr class="dtstart" title="20051010T10:10:10-0100">10 o'clock on the 10th</abbr>
</pre>
</li>
<li>
using ABBR to encode more formal human data around something less formal

<pre>
<abbr class="author" title="Danny Ayers">Danny</abbr>
</pre>
</li>
</ol>

Use #1 is encouraged if there's a reasonable need for it. Use #2 is discouraged under the [http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?DontRepeatYourself Don't Repeat Yourself principle], as: "#2 is a case of *more* information being invisibly present, namely, the
last name in this case. If someone is not willing to make some information visible, then we
shouldn't be encouraging them to store that information invisibly, for all
the same reasons that invisible metadata is bad/futile in the first place."

''I'd like to delete this below, as the points are covered above''

* Theoretically, this could be done with almost any HTML element. But is it a good idea? If it's not, is abbr the only one? [[DavidJanes]]
* abbr-design-pattern should be avoided, if possible. [[User:RobertBachmann|RobertBachmann]]
** why, or under what circumstances? For example, it is quite useful with datetimes. Should there not be other potentially analogous situations? [[DavidJanes]]
** Under circumstances where the text in the title would be gobbledegook if read by a screenreader. JAWS and other screenreaders use title attributes from abbr, when used properly (as in this example from the WCAG group), to pronounce words which would otherwise be unreadable or confusing. Using machine data such as datetime as a title is an bending of the dictionary definition of abbreviation (contraction by ommision or initialisation, applied at the word and not semantic level), this may not be a great issue in itself, but if screen readers are unable to turn title content into something comprehensible, this will lead to accessibility failures.

<pre>
Sugar is commonly sold in 5 <abbr title="pound">lb.<abbr> bags.
Welcome to the <abbr title="World Wide Web">WWW</abbr>!
</pre>

==Accessibility issues==

Ironically, this pattern while machine readable for browsers compatible with microformats is not accessible for screenreaders when referring to a date. Therefore:

<pre>
we have a party in
<abbr class="dtstart" title="20070312T1700-06">
March 12, 2007 at 5 PM
</abbr>
</pre>

would be read by Jaws as

<pre>
we have a party at Twenty million seventy-thousand three-hundred twelve tee seventeen-hundred dash zero six.
</pre>

The [http://www.webstandards.org/2007/04/27/haccessibility/ accessibility task force] from webstandards.org recommends:

<pre>

March 12, 2007 at 5 PM, Central Standard Time

</pre>

or

<pre>

March 12, 2007 at 5 PM, Central Standard Time


</pre>

see more at [[abbr-design-pattern-issues]] and [http://www.webstandards.org/2007/04/27/haccessibility/]

== See Also ==
* [[abbr-design-pattern-issues]]
* [[Main_Page#Design_Patterns|All microformat design patterns]]
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-October/001277.html discussion in microformats-discuss]
* [[datetime-design-pattern]] uses [[abbr-design-pattern]]
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-ABBR HTML 4.01 definition]

[[Category:Specific Microformats]]

orphans

2007-09-01T16:33:35Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* The pages */ removed isbn from list

=Orphans=

Wiki pages (or related groups of pages) with nothing linking to them.

Please find pages which should link to them, add the links, then remove them from this list.

If you find any orphaned pages, and don't know what should link to them, please add them here.

Thank you.

==The pages==
*[[footnotes-examples]]
*[[history-examples]]
*[[history-of-microformats]]
*[[kragen-history-of-markup]]

rel-tag-spaces

2007-09-01T16:32:56Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* ISSN */ added link to isbn

This is a list of "name spaces" suitable for use in tagging, and by the [[rel-tag]] microformat. Please feel free to add to it, in alphabetical order.

==A9==
*One word - http://a9.com/microformats
*Multi-word - http://a9.com/source+code (plus sign)

==Amazon.com==
*One word - http://www.amazon.com/tag/horror
*Multi-word - http://www.amazon.com/tag/science%20fiction (%20, browsers will auto-encode a space into this)

:(note - not valid for amazon.co.uk)

==del.icio.us==
*One word - http://del.icio.us/tag/dog
*Multi-word - http://del.icio.us/tag/german_shepherd (underscore)

==Discogs==
(for musical artists)
*One word - http://www.discogs.com/artist/Genesis
*Multi-word - http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jimi+Hendrix (plus sign)

==eBay==
*One word - http://search.ebay.com/door
*Multi-word - http://search.ebay.com/door-mat (hyphen)
*International - http://search.ebay.co.uk/door (etc.)

==Flickr==
*One word - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/key
*Multi-word - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/key_hole (underscore)

== ISBN ==

For [[isbn|ISBN]] codes, e.g. 0-9507881-2-0:

*Talis (note: no hyphens)
** ISBN-10 - http://cenote.talis.com/isbn/0950788120
** ISBN-13 - http://cenote.talis.com/isbn/9780950788128
*Wikipedia
** ISBN-10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0950788120 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0-9507881-2-0
** ISBN-13 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/9780950788128 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/978-09507881-2-8
*WorldCat
** ISBN-10 - http://worldcat.org/isbn/0950788120 or http://worldcat.org/isbn/0-9507881-2-0
** ISBN-13 - http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780950788128 or http://worldcat.org/isbn/978-0950788128

== ISSN ==

For [[isbn|ISSN]] codes, e.g. 0007-0335
*WorldCat - http://worldcat.org/issn/0007-0335 (hyphen mandatory)

==Technorati==
*One word - http://technorati.com/tag/cheese
*Multi-word - http://technorati.com/tag/apple+pie (plus sign)

==Wikipedia==
*One word - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sugar
*Multi-word - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/brown_sugar (underscore)

===Issues (Wikipedia)===
*Case sensitivity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Barr works; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/perry_barr does not)
*Caution should be exercised when using Wikipedia as a name-space. For example, an article about Birmingham, Alabama, tagged with a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham would link to an article about Birmingham, England.

==Wikitravel==
For place names.
*One word - http://wikitravel.org/en/London
*Multi-word - http://wikitravel.org/en/East_Grinstead (underscore)

===Issues (Wikitravel)===
*A tag using, e.g. http://wikitravel.org/en/Newcastle will link to a disambiguation page.

==Yedda==
For Questions & Answers:
*One word - http://yedda.com/questions/tags/technology
*Multi-word - http://yedda.com/questions/tags/home+improvement (plus sign)

For people (by interest):
*One word - http://yedda.com/questions/tags/technology
*Multi-word - http://yedda.com/people/tags/web+2.0 (plus sign)

==Related pages==
{{rel-tag-related-pages}}

rel-tag-spaces

2007-09-01T16:32:02Z

CarlaHufstedler: /* ISBN */ added link to isbn

This is a list of "name spaces" suitable for use in tagging, and by the [[rel-tag]] microformat. Please feel free to add to it, in alphabetical order.

==A9==
*One word - http://a9.com/microformats
*Multi-word - http://a9.com/source+code (plus sign)

==Amazon.com==
*One word - http://www.amazon.com/tag/horror
*Multi-word - http://www.amazon.com/tag/science%20fiction (%20, browsers will auto-encode a space into this)

:(note - not valid for amazon.co.uk)

==del.icio.us==
*One word - http://del.icio.us/tag/dog
*Multi-word - http://del.icio.us/tag/german_shepherd (underscore)

==Discogs==
(for musical artists)
*One word - http://www.discogs.com/artist/Genesis
*Multi-word - http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jimi+Hendrix (plus sign)

==eBay==
*One word - http://search.ebay.com/door
*Multi-word - http://search.ebay.com/door-mat (hyphen)
*International - http://search.ebay.co.uk/door (etc.)

==Flickr==
*One word - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/key
*Multi-word - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/key_hole (underscore)

== ISBN ==

For [[isbn|ISBN]] codes, e.g. 0-9507881-2-0:

*Talis (note: no hyphens)
** ISBN-10 - http://cenote.talis.com/isbn/0950788120
** ISBN-13 - http://cenote.talis.com/isbn/9780950788128
*Wikipedia
** ISBN-10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0950788120 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/0-9507881-2-0
** ISBN-13 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/9780950788128 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Booksources/978-09507881-2-8
*WorldCat
** ISBN-10 - http://worldcat.org/isbn/0950788120 or http://worldcat.org/isbn/0-9507881-2-0
** ISBN-13 - http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780950788128 or http://worldcat.org/isbn/978-0950788128

==ISSN==
For ISSN codes, e.g. 0007-0335
*WorldCat - http://worldcat.org/issn/0007-0335 (hyphen mandatory)

==Technorati==
*One word - http://technorati.com/tag/cheese
*Multi-word - http://technorati.com/tag/apple+pie (plus sign)

==Wikipedia==
*One word - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sugar
*Multi-word - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/brown_sugar (underscore)

===Issues (Wikipedia)===
*Case sensitivity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Barr works; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/perry_barr does not)
*Caution should be exercised when using Wikipedia as a name-space. For example, an article about Birmingham, Alabama, tagged with a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham would link to an article about Birmingham, England.

==Wikitravel==
For place names.
*One word - http://wikitravel.org/en/London
*Multi-word - http://wikitravel.org/en/East_Grinstead (underscore)

===Issues (Wikitravel)===
*A tag using, e.g. http://wikitravel.org/en/Newcastle will link to a disambiguation page.

==Yedda==
For Questions & Answers:
*One word - http://yedda.com/questions/tags/technology
*Multi-word - http://yedda.com/questions/tags/home+improvement (plus sign)

For people (by interest):
*One word - http://yedda.com/questions/tags/technology
*Multi-word - http://yedda.com/people/tags/web+2.0 (plus sign)

==Related pages==
{{rel-tag-related-pages}}