Author: plindner
Description:
Hi,
XFN (XHTML Friends Network) and HTML5 define a standard way for authors
and accounts to link identity and authorship on the web.
Right now the link editor on mediawiki does not have the ability to add the rel="me" markup needed by an author to link to their other accounts.
If rel="me" markup is available we could allow wikipedia authors to participate in the Google Authorship program:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1229920
The second step involves adding rel="author" attributes to links from articles to the mediawiki profile pages.
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or want to work more closely on this.
Paul
plindner@google.com