Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-2240397-20160211204935/@comment-5973717-20160216164431

FishTank wrote: Schema use is quite a fascinating feature, and one I'd like to be able to explore the implications of natively further. At this juncture, we're looking at styling only rather than new microdata / semantic features.

Don't worry, we have not forgotten (and will not forget) about it. :-)

We've already proven it's possible, back when I wrote the first version. I'm exploring the idea of an extension to bring it back, but I'm not familiar enough with PHP to implement it.

I think it would be really useful. Many wikis, including the main one I work on, use Wikipedia as a benchmark of SEO. If we're beating Wikipedia on a topic, we're succeeding, and if Wikipedia is beating us, improvement is needed. This doesn't work if a Wikipedia page doesn't exist. Since Wikipedia has implemented these features natively, implementing it on our side would give us back an advantage.