Hi Folks, Would you help me understand how the geo Microformat gets automatically injected into a Wikipedia page?
I took a look at one of the Wikipedia articles that Andy referenced: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast> The geo Microformat occurs at this point in the article: ... Belfast is situated at 54°34′0″ N 5°56′20″ W (54.5833333333, -5.93888888889). A consequence of this latitude is ... Note: The degrees-minutes-seconds lat/lon is a hotlink. Here's how it appears in edit mode (i.e., here's the Wikipedia markup): ... Belfast is situated at {{coor dms|54|35|0|N|05|56|20|W|}}. A consequence of this latitude is ... Here's the HTML (i.e., here's what View Page Source of the article gives): ... Belfast is situated at <span class="plainlinksneverexpand"> <a href="http://...?params=54.5833333333_N_5.93888888889_W_" class="external text" title="http://...?params=54.5833333333_N_5.93888888889_W_" rel="nofollow"> <span title="Maps, ... data for 54°34′0″ N 5°56′20″ W"> <span style="white-space:nowrap">54°34′0″ N</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap">5°56′20″ W</span> <span class="geo" style="display:none"> (<span class="latitude">54.583333</span>, <span class="longitude">5.9388888</span>) </span> </span> </a> </span>. A consequence of this latitude is ... Note the use of two Microformats: rel-nofollow and geo. As I look at the above, I guess that: - {{coor dms|xx|xx|xx|...|xx|}} is the Wikipedia symbology for "invoke the coor template, the coordinate is specified using degees-minutes-seconds as follows: xx xx xx ..." - what Andy and Quarl did was to modify the coor template to inject the geo Microformat Is this a correct guess of how it works? Is there an "adr template" in Wikipedia, so that the adr Microformat can be automatically injected into Wikipedia pages? Is there a way to create new templates? Can we create a template for hcard, vevent, and so forth? Once again, great job Andy! /Roger -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Mabbett Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:15 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Geo deployed on Wikipedia. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I've just added: > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AGeoTemplate&diff= 119003866&oldid=118216477> > >Geo to Wikipedia's GeoTemplate: >Work to add Geo to the individual articles is ongoing. The later is now done - every singe Wikipedia article which publishes coordinates (and that includes, cities, neighbourhoods, transport stations, hotels, hospitals, mountains, museums, etc. etc.) using a template (and there are many thousands) now includes Geo ;-) Templates which use titles in the coordinate template will be attended to shortly. I'm indebted to Wikipedia user "Quarl" for working with me on the implementation. Examples (showing a variety of formats and uses): <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamstead_railway_station> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast> In a related project, I and others are working to add coordinates to all the articles, about places, which don't yet have them. -- Andy Mabbett * Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> * Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> * Are you using Microformats, yet: <http://microformats.org/> ? _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss