--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:

EasyTimeline by Erik Zachte is an extension for creating graphical timelines with clickable links. WikiHiero by Guillaume 'Aoineko' Blanchard is for rendering hieroglyphs. Both are now enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.

As per our earlier extension syntax vote, EasyTimeline uses the <timeline> syntax, WikiHiero uses the <hiero> syntax.

You can read more about them here: http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyTimeline http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiHiero

To my knowledge, MediaWiki is the only wiki software which supports such functionality. It should make our wikis interesting even in the highest academic circles.

Although EasyTimeline can generate SVG output, only PNG output is currently supported. In the future, we hope to offer SVG as a user preference.

Hey that is really neat! Could this be used to create a small, clickable imagemap for use in maps? I would love to have something like that for the image locater maps used in the element articles. See http//:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen for an example. It wold also be great to eventually marry that with a map generation feature to create clickable maps.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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Erik Moeller schrieb:

To my knowledge, MediaWiki is the only wiki software which supports such functionality. It should make our wikis interesting even in the highest academic circles.

PhpWiki has a ploticus plugin, which can be treated to do the same thing. Sure, EasyTimeline is better, but I don't like the external dependency.

We don't use a perl script behind and give the full Ploticus power to the user. My goal is to simplify the syntax and to do the processing in php. No seperate requirements (other than ploticus).

png, jpeg, gif. later: imagemaps, svg, swf. They need a different cache strategy.

-- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.sf.net/