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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 POSH new!.
• See the about page, latest news, press, presentations, books, podcasts, & screencasts.
• Have questions? Read the 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 webpages.

Microformats enable the publishing of higher fidelity information on the Web, providing the fastest & simplest way to support feeds and APIs for your website. See more explanations of what are microformats, and what you can do with them.

How to contribute

Do you want to help take microformats to the next level? You can:

• Get started by adding microformats to your website, services, and products.
• Advocate the use of microformats on other web sites, especially those you use.
• Write a testimonial.
• Do something on the to do list.
• Join the IRC Channel and mailing lists to learn and help answer questions (read the general guidelines before posting).
• Translate this microformats wiki into other languages to make microformats more accessible to readers of languages around the world.
• Find orphaned pages, and add links to them.
• Before proposing any new microformats, make sure your website is POSH, uses existing microformats, and then read the process.

Specifications

Microformats open standards specifications (see also: implementations, examples-in-the-wild)

• hCalendar - hcalendar creator
• hCard - hcard creator
• rel-license
• rel-nofollow
• rel-tag
• VoteLinks
• XFN (see also: xfn-implementations)
• XMDP
• XOXO

Drafts

• adr: a simple format for marking up address information
• geo: a simple format for marking up WGS84 geographic coordinates (latitude; longitude)
• hAtom: a microformat for content that can be syndicated, primarily but not exclusively weblog postings
• hResume: a microformat for publishing resumes and CVs
• hReview - hreview creator
• rel-directory: a way for a page to indicate that the destination of a hyperlink is a directory listing containing an entry for the current page
• rel-enclosure: a format for indicating files to cache
• rel-home: a way to indicate that the destination of a hyperlink is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears
• rel-payment: a microformat for making exchanges of support (be it financial or otherwise) possible
• Robots Exclusion
• xFolk

Design Patterns

Design patterns are common uses of markup across microformats.

• abbr-design-pattern
• class-design-pattern
• date-design-pattern
• datetime-design-pattern
• include-pattern
• value-class-pattern
• rel-design-pattern

Exploratory Discussions

Per the microformats process: research and analysis of real-world examples, existing formats, and brainstorming to motivate the microformat. Please check rejected-formats before making additions.

• alternates alternates brainstorming, alternates examples
• attention
• audio-info (examples, formats, brainstorming, proposal, issues) - Marking up information and metadata related to audio (speech, music, and sound in general).
• audio-album (see audio-info pages for examples, formats, brainstorming. audio-album-proposal, audio-album-issues) - Marking up information and metadata related to audio albums/collections. new!
• blog description blog description examples
• blog info blog info examples
• blog post examples, blog post formats, and blog post brainstorming (yielded the hAtom draft)
• book book examples, book formats, and book brainstorming
• chat chat examples, chat formats, and chat brainstorming
• citation citation effort, citation examples, citation formats, citation brainstorming, and citation FAQ
• code code examples, code-formats, code brainstorming
• comment comment problem, comment examples, and comment formats (Some stuff needs to be extracted from comments-formats)
• collection description - for describing collections in libraries new!
• course-catalog; course-catalog-examples new!
• currency; currency-examples; currency-formats; currency-brainstorming; currency-proposal; currency-issues
• depend-examples: examples of dependency graphs, especially as they relate to software new!
• digital-signatures: incorporation of digital signatures in Microformatted data; (digital-signature examples, digitalsignature-formats, digital-signatures brainstorming) new!
• directions directions examples new!
• directory inclusion directory inclusion examples, directory inclusion formats. (yielded the rel-directory microformat)
• distributed conversation distributed conversation overview, distributed conversation examples, distributed conversation formats, distributed conversation brainstorming
• downloads downloads examples, downloads formats, downloads brainstorming new!
• error messages error message examples, error-message-formats, error message brainstorming
• forms forms examples
• file-format (examples, formats, brainstorming) - for the mark-up of file format information (size, type, codecs, bitrate, etc.) new! - should this be merged with downloads ?
• genealogy genealogy-examples, genealogy formats
• geo extensions
  • geo-elevation-examples, geo-elevation-formats - extend geo for representing altitude new!
  • geo-waypoint-examples, geo-waypoint-formats - extend geo for representing routes and boundaries, using waypoints new!
  • geo-extension-examples, geo-extension-formats, geo-extension-brainstorming, geo-extension-strawman - extend geo for moons, other planets, etc.
• group group examples, group-formats, group brainstorming
• grouping (examples, formats, brainstorming, proposal) - Metadata markup of items that should be grouped together. new!
• hash hash examples (see also downloads)
• items items examples, items-formats, items brainstorming
• job listing job listing examples, job-listing-formats, job listing brainstorming
• last modified last modified examples, last modified formats, and last modified brainstorming
• listing / hListing hListing proposal, and hListing feedback
  • based on listing examples, formats, and brainstorming
• location location-examples, location formats. (see also adr, geo, hCard)
• measures and measurement units measure, measure-examples, measure-formats
• media-info (media-info examples, media-info formats, media-info brainstorming) updated!
• meeting minutes meeting minutes examples, meeting minutes formats, and meeting minutes brainstorming
• metalink metalink examples new!
• MFO examples
• music music examples updated! (see also audio-info)
• news news examples new!
• operating-hours: operating-hours-examples ..of stores, restaurants, etc. updated!
• page-summary page-summary-examples, page-summary-formats
• payment
• photo note photo note examples
• product - product-examples, product-formats, product-brainstorming. The following needs to be cleaned up as part of product: rel-product rel-product brainstorming
• question-answer, question-answer-examples, question-answer-formats, question-answer-brainstorming new!
• realestate-propertydetail, realestate-propertydetail-examples, realestate-propertydetail-formats, realestate-propertydetail brainstorming
• receipt (examples, formats, brainstorming, proposal) - Marking up information and metadata related to purchase receipts. new!
• recipe recipe examples, recipe-formats, recipe-brainstorming updated!
• requirements testing requirements testing overview, and requirements testing examples
• REST examples (see also rest)
• resume resume-examples, resume formats, resume brainstorming yielded the hResume draft.
• review review examples, and review formats yielded the hReview draft
• search results search results example
• show show-examples, show-formats, show brainstorming (see also media-info)
• showroll showroll-examples, showroll-formats, showroll-brainstorming
• species - for the marking up of the scientific names of living things: species-examples, species-formats, species-brainstorming updated!
• table examples
• tagspeak tagspeak examples
• tagcloud tagcloud examples, and tagcloud brainstorming.
• to-do-examples, to-do-formats, to-do-brainstorming, to perhaps yield hToDo
• transit table transit table examples
• uid
• widget widget examples, and widget brainstorming
• wiki formats
• work of art work of art overview, work of art examples, work of art formats, and work of art brainstorming
• XMDP brainstorming (see also xmdp-faq)

Examples

• examples-in-the-wild
• implementations
• zen-garden

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 the wild (Profile URIs for head elements)
• selected-test-cases-from-the-web
• Source code repository -- how to download code from the repository
• user-interface
• User profile examples, in the wild (User profiles, for social websites)
• vcard-implementations, vcard-errata, vcard-suggestions
• why-are-content-standards-hard

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
• jobs
• user-interface
• shortcuts to wiki pages with long names
• marked-for-deletion
• spell-check dictionary

shared work areas

• to-do
• microformats-issues - issues related to more than one microformat.
• external-issues

microformats wiki translations

You may read and edit microformats articles in many other languages:

• languages with over 100 articles
  • Français (French) mis à jour!
• languages with over 10 articles
  • Português (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
• languages with over 2 articles
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • Romanian
• elsewhere
  • Wikipedia's article on microformats has been translated into a number of languages.

See also other-languages, and how-to-start-a-new-translation.