Hi, Aryeh, Sorry for late reply.
I think I can not enable the $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes setting in LocalSettings.php, because my project hosted in Chinese Wikipedia, I think I have to wait for the decision from Foundation. For now, I will custom data-* for a temporary solution. Thanks for your help. Regards, Mingli On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Mingli Yuan <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am trying to make a wiki template to render some meta data of an article. >> And I want to use HTML5 Microdata to make these metadate machine-readable. >> >> But the problem I found is that XHtml Sanitizer in MediaWiki remove >> all the attributes needed. > > Set $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes = true; in LocalSettings.php. This is > false by default (along with $wgAllowRdfaAttributes) because there's a > political battle between microdata and RDFa and it's much too early to > see who will win, and we wound up deciding not to take a side. > Personally I think microdata is superior and we should support it and > not RDFa, but others disagreed. (FWIW, I think our RDFa support > doesn't actually work correctly anyway, but I can't remember the > details and could be wrong.) > > Glancing back over the microdata code, I should point out an important > caveat: we don't allow any itemtypes other than the three originally > defined in the microdata specification. This seems kind of stupid, > though, so on reflection, I removed it in r83689. You can copy the > (quite trivial) patch to your own wiki if you want: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/83689 > >> The Microdata spec[1] add below global attribute for almost every html tag: >> * itemscope >> * itemtype >> * itemid >> * itemref >> * itemprop > > Every, not almost every -- they're global attributes. > >> But for the meta tag, I am not very sure, I don't know whether the >> search engine still use it or not. >> If the search engines do not care about it, why not relax the constraints on >> it? > > We could allow meta tags and just not whitelist the properties like > name or http-equiv. That would probably be safe. But you should only > use <meta> with microdata if you can't avoid it, anyway. > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote: >> I dont know how final the HTML5 microdata spec is though (it seems to >> be marked as a draft) >> perhaps we should wait adding new attirbutes untill it's ready ? > > All of HTML5 is only a draft, by W3C standards. The WHATWG version is > billed as a "Living Standard" like all the rest: > <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#microdata>. > Microdata specifically is stable -- it hasn't changed for quite a few > months, and the editor has assured me that it's very unlikely to > change incompatibly at this point. The question is really whether we > want to take sides in the microdata vs. RDFa battle. (As I said, I > think we should, but I'm probably biased.) > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
