Feature request: hCalendar
As a lover of random microformats and an active Wikinewsie, I saw this and thought it might be a good candidate for the hCalendar microformat. It would siply have to output:
* <span class="vevent"><abbr class="dtstart" title="yyyy-mm-ddZ">d month yyyy</abbr>: <span class="summary">[[Title]]</span></span>
rather than just:
* d month yyyy: [[Title]]
Of course, this only works if it is set to output the date, and some styling of the abbr might be wanted to remove the border-bottom. I don't really feel strongly about this - I just ♥ microformats, and thought I'd suggest it.
Hmm, is it a safe assumption that the date in a dpl list always refers to the start of an event? If you can find an actually live concrete example of someone some where who would benefit from the embeded microformat data, it would add a lot to this proposal. (As an aside, a user custom format might be added in the future which would allow the user to design any custom format they like).
dtstart is simply the name given to the date parameter. For a duration, one would match it with dtend, but alone it simply marks the date and time at which something happened - in this case, the date the article was added to the category. This would come in useful to people who wanted an easy way to plot various events (e.g. on Wikinews) on a timeline or calendar - while now that would have to manually enter each date and event, this would allow them to simply export (e.g. using Operator) all the hCalendar events on a page, and import the resultant file into their application of choice, which is far easier. Use will, of course, be limited, but it's something some people might want to do (I have done similar things myself in the past, manually), and it has little-to-no impact on other users' experience, other than perhaps a millisecond increase in loading time. As support for hCalendar becomes more widespread, this will have more uses and applications.
