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This attribute represents the imported [[FOAF]] property [[imported from:=foaf:mbox]]. It is used to specify someones email address in URI-form. However: '''Do not use ''foaf:mbox'' directly.''' Instead, use the template [[Template:mailbox]] as follows:

 <nowiki>{{mailbox|someone@somewhere.org}}</nowiki>

to get multiple annotations in one step: one with ''foaf:mbox'' and one with [[Property:email]]. To still use ''foaf:mbox'', one would write

 <nowiki>[[foaf:mbox:=mailto:someone@somewhere.org]]</nowiki>

where "mailto:" is important. 

'''Attention:''' FOAF specifies that everything with a value for ''foaf:mbox'' is a ''foaf:Agent'', i.e. some entity that can do something. So do not use ''foaf:mbox'' to assign an email, e.g., to a conference. An alternative to ''foaf:mbox'' is [[Property:email]] which encodes emails as a string (without "mailto:" and without a FOAF interpretation).

[[Category:Foaf]]
Imported from "Imported from" is a predefined property that describes a relation to an imported vocabulary and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.	foaf:mbox +
Has type "Has type" is a predefined property that describes the datatype of a property and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.	Email +