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2007-01-06

ChristopheDucamp, I’d be excited to see what you do with the MicroFormats page, as PageMaintainer!

Do you have the time? You might look at Alex’s work on WriteForSkimming, and my work on ConversationProcess, if you’re looking for models.

I’m really excited by this, I think it’s really working!

Hé Lion, yes I’m strongly motivated to be a MainteneurPage on MicroFormats. Currently thinking.

    "Microformats are human-readable first and machinereadable second."
     Microformats are designed first and foremost for humans. 
     People shouldn’t be forced to use a specific structure to change 
     the way they publish data or to modify their habits. 

That’s the official definition… from Brian Suda.

As you know, wikis are very poor[1] with microformats and my current thinking would be to have a ConversationProcess with you, Alex, EvanProdromou (which has already made some efforts on WikiTravel to qualify venues…) and the CommunityWikiAssembly about a first very simple use of MicroFormats:hcard. Because we shoul not change the way we publish data or mofify our habits. How about very simple ways to have hCard in this wiki :

Lion, I’m really enthusiast to imagine the future of semantic-markup in wikis. I’ll come back after reading this first pdf. May I ask first any administrator to add http://microformats.org/wiki/ on the InterMap. It will help me to seed some first links in the “See Also” section.

Consider also this short contribution as a wiki-call to EvanProdromou which could be designated as an authoritative co-PageMaintainer ;-)

I’m very positive about semantic-markup in wiki, and very pro-MicroFormats in general. LocalNames 2 is entirely based in MicroFormats; I’ll need to consult with the Microformats community within a few months, so that they can check my work, and start to consider it.

It should be possible to make class, div, rel expressions with some relatively simple WikiSyntax.

I wrote an extension for it, but the problem is that human-readable addresses are hard to parse in an international context. So my Oddmuse extension would only work for Swiss or at least many European addresses. [2] I guess the system could be improved step by step, at least for Oddmuse. Maybe we should create a “Wiki hCard” page and put a copy of Evan’s proposal there?

For my own “About” page on my homepage [3] I finally opted for raw HTML [4], because I knew my site was only ever going to have this one hCard on it, and should I ever want more, I’d start fiddling with that Oddmuse extension again.

Anyway, I think the first step would be a wiki-markup for hCard – it doesn’t have to involve a lot of markup at all. It would be cool if would allow very minimal stuff as well such as recognizing Alex Schroeder <kensanata@gmail.com> or Alex, +41786125175. Perhaps a simple :hCard: at the beginning of the info would be enough, and then the parser would try to parse as much as possible, stopping when it can no longer continue.

Hi Alex, happy new year. WikiHcard? sounds like a great experience for CW. Eager to make first tests before reworking MicroFormats. Alex, would you be ready to be the authoritative WikiHcard? (or WikihCard? ?) PageMaintainer. I’d be happy to give any feedback/help to co-maintain it in LangueFrançaise. Still troubles with french accents and currently searching to help people to localize “Region” in France. vcard explorer could also be tested in german and localized in french ?

I don’t think I’m enough into Microformats in order to be the page maintainer for a page on a proposed wiki markup for hCard. If I had a clear vision of where I wanted to take it, I could write some code first, some documentation later, and finally open a discussion about it. But empty handed… I don’t think so.

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