Last modified: 2008-07-30 22:29:01 UTC
I think it would be a good idea to activate the WikiTimeLine MediaWiki extension in wikipedia or one of its sister projects. Here's a short description: The MediaWiki extension WikiTimeLine version 1.0 is now released. It displays events, people, and such on an interactive timeline. Its working with JavaScript (client side, so it doesn't put load on the server) and its pretty interactive (moving around, zooming, clicking on events on the timeline). If you add WikiTimeLine tags with a start and end date to an article, you'll get a link in that article, and if you click on that link you'll add the event to the timeline. So its totally real-time. Unlike easytimeline which is creating pictures when the article is created, WikiTimeLine is controlled by the reader of the article, not the writer. So everyone can put together their own timeline to see how things went in history. It also allows ongoing events (that have not yet stopped) and alternative begin or end dates. I think this would be a great extension for Wikipedia or one of its sister projects. Any interest in that? greetings, Markus PS: follow the link added to this message or any of these: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiTimeLine and http://www.chaosreligion.com/wtl/index.php5?title=WikiTimeLine
Extensions are generally not pushed onto projects, they are given when asked for. If you think Wikipedia would like this extension, ask Wikipedia - then, when Wikipedia has decided, they will ask here. That request should then be filed under Wikimedia not Mediawiki.
Huh, ok. Complex ;) Sorry if I took the wrong way, I'll go to wikipedia/wikimedia ;)
