You might want to look at Assaf's textTags at http://trac.labnotes.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/TextagsPlugin
textTags use templates to turn text like tag: FOO To: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/FOO"; rel="tag" class="tag">FOO</a> Check out the trac page for more complex samples using hEvent. Eran > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Chris Messina > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:13 PM > To: David Weekly > Cc: Tara Hunt; Microformats Discuss > Subject: [uf-discuss] Re: Thoughts on MF & Wiki > > For you example, consider this (behold, the power of community wikis): > > Take: "We're meeting at Gordon Biersch at 10:30 tomorrow - be there!" > > Change to: We're meeting at > [Event: Gordon Biersch at 10:30 tomorrow] - be there!" > > The wiki can both parse that information (like 30boxes) but > can also create a temporary event listing that other people > can come and garden later. If they don't, that's fine, the > HTML output can still be generic to show approximately what > content on the page is an event. > > What do you think about that general method? There's instant > benefit (the text would be added to a calendar of some sort, > some processing might occur, and it's added to a list that > can be gardened later)? > > Chris > > On 3/27/06, David Weekly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > First, writing microformats should be 1. invisible. 2. useful. > > > > Much agreed on both. > > > > The problem I see might be more fundamental, though. Unless > people see > > a benefit to writing in a more structured way (vs "We're meeting at > > Gordon Biersch at 10:30 tomorrow - be there!"), they're > probably not > > going to. Asking users to formalize their speech is an endeavor not > > likely to succeed. > > > > Success will come from tools/widgets that make it as fast > or faster to > > drop in the essence of what is being done (add a meeting at Gordon > > Bierch for 10:30pm the next day), giving some direct benefit to the > > user (adding it to the wiki calendar) while quietly > dropping in the MF > > code. > > > > Asking users to even put in something that's transformable > to MF still > > requires structure that is antithetical to wiki-ness. > > > > > Therefore, if the wiki knows about a contact, it should > autocomplete > > > a vcard for me. > > > > Automated things like this (recognizing email addresses for > which more > > information is known) absolutely should offer more information > > whereever they can. > > > > -D > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
