Hi Joan,

It seems that historical event is on the proposed property list: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal#Historical_Event_.2F_Historisches_Ereignis_.2F

It has been more than three days, so my understanding is that it can be officially created now so people can start adding them to the database. Someone else will have to answer your question about extending Mediawiki to render timelines automatically though. On the database side, we would just have to make sure there is enough granularity in the database (for example under the domain for the historical event as currently proposed) to allow the software to find just the dates that are relevant for a specific article.

Michael

Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:11:33 +0100
From: joan.creus.c@gmail.com
To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikidata-l] Chronological axes in Wikidata

Being a high school (15) student who likes programming, I often develop software to help me (&fellow students) study. In two days time we have a history exam with a ton of dates to learn, so I began thinking of a way to represent it in an axis via a web page.

And Wikidata came to my head. I guess it could be really useful, given the property system (it could take into account single events and also periods such as wars). I'll try to do it (obviously, I'm now in term exams though it could be an incredible way to procrastinate...), but anyway, is there any interest in this? I guess it could replace the current rather awkward-looking axes.

From a technical viewpoint, could it be feasible to make it as an extension to Mediawiki which displays HTML5? I have some experience with MediaWiki's PHP but not much.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for my non-native Englisn,

Joan Creus.

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