Last modified: 2013-03-25 14:57:23 UTC
I've spotted many wikipedia articles with coordinates displayed in the top right and noticed that the geo microformat is not used. That means that the tails firefox extension and other microformat tools currently do not recognize the coordinates in wikipedia articles. Microformats are intended to embedd machine readable information in ordinary html. The geo format is commonly used to markup gps coordinates. This information is picked up by some firefox extensions, search engines and also geo support for firefox 3.0 is currently planned. When the information is picked up, tools may be use it to provide links to maps sites, google earth, etc. More information on the geo microformat may be found here: http://microformats.org/wiki/geo. Since it is extremely easy to support, I request that support for at least this format is added. There may be opportunities for using some of the other formats as well (e.g. hcard for addresses). I think the variant of the format with an abbr tag would be most useful since you can include the name of the article as the abbr content. If needed, the formatted coordinate can be hidden using simple css rules. In other words, it does not need to replace the current coordinate functionality but can simply be added to the page html with display: none applied in the css.
abbr needs to be whitelisted for the coordinate templates to work properly
The abbr element has already been whitelisted, so I'm removing Bug #671 as a "depends on" dependency.
D'oh. I guess it would help if I actually removed the dependency when removing a dependency.
