Welcome to the microformats wiki! · Microformats Wiki

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Please start with the introduction page and read how-to-play before making any edits.

Introduction

This wiki is the central resource of the microformats community. You'll find current versions of published microformat specifications, specification drafts and publishing patterns. The wiki also hosts development resources, such as brainstorming pages for new formats and issue tracking pages for all current and in-development microformats.

To get started with microformats:

First, be familiar writing your pages and applications with semantically rich, descriptive, ‘ POSH ’ HTML

Learn about microformats from the about page blog press presentations books podcasts , & screencasts pages.

Take a look at established specifications such as hCard and hCalendar , and follow the examples to start publishing microformats.

Have questions? Read the frequently asked questions and see the glossary for terms and definitions. You can also post to the mailing list

Want to learn more in person? Check out microformats events

Also, this wiki has a number of neat enhancements to assist development and contributions to microformats. Before you start editing, see the wiki introduction page for instructions.

Definition

Microformats are small patterns of HTML to represent commonly published things like people events blog posts reviews and tags in web pages.

Microformats enable the publishing of higher fidelity information on the Web; the fastest and simplest way to provide feeds and APIs for the information in your website.

Read more explanations of what microformats are , and what you can do with them

How to contribute

Do you want to help take microformats to the next level? You can:

Get started by adding microformats to your website, services, and products.

Advocate the use of microformats on other web sites, especially those you use.

Write a testimonial

Do something on the to do list

Join the IRC Channel and mailing lists to learn ...

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http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page