By counting instances of the templates emitting microformats. For
example, on en.WP, {{Coord}} alone emits 757,299 'geo' (coordinates)
microformats [1]; {{Infobox settlement}} emits 273,300 hCard (place)
microformats [2] - that's over a million, alone. {{Infobox person}}
emits 105,623 hCard (biography) microformats [3]; {{Taxobox}} emits
197,363 species microformats [4], and there are hundreds more
templates emitting smaller, but not inconsequential, numbers of
microformats of the above and other types [5].
A further, vast, number of hCalendar (event) microformats are emitted,
but without the required date metadata, because a long-requested bot
task\ [6] remains unfulfilled. For example, {{Infobox album}} emits
110,712 hCalendar microformats - as well as another 110,712 complete
hAudio microformats [7].
[1]
http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=Coord
[2]
http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=Infobox+settlement
[3]
http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=Infobox_person
[4]
http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=taxobox
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats
[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/SmackBot_XV
[7]
http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=Infobox+album
On 9 April 2012 20:52, Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andy,
>
> chiming in late in this thread, can you give me some pointers on how you
> estimate this figure?
>
> Thanks
> Dario
>
> On Apr 3, 2012, at 5:32 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>
>> Yes (I was on my mobile so couldn't conveniently post a link, when I
>> sent my last email; apologies.
>>
>> en-WP already emits over a million microformats.
>>
>>
>> On 3 April 2012 13:22, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I'm the (for want of a better word) project lead for Microformats on
>>>> en-Wikipedia.
>>>>
>>>> How can I help?
>>>
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> Is it this project:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Lydia
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