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.
Regards,
Erik
Thats really really cool. I love the timeline. It might not be really "pretty" at the moment, but this is obviously just the start. As graphic libs evolve these will just get better and better looking. I wonder what they would look like if they could be made into PDF.. text anti-aliasni just makes things so much prettier most of the time
Lightning
On May 30, 2004, at 8:36 PM, Erik Moeller 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.
Regards,
Erik _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
With the new look to the wiki, (congrats on its appeal!) the logo is back to English in the other lang wikis. What needs to be done to display the corresponding language logo?
I've translated the logos for several wikis last time around and I'm willing to do this again if needed.
Simply uploading the file doesn't do the trick... I believe.
With regards, Jay B. [[User:ILVI]]
Jay Bowks wrote:
With the new look to the wiki, (congrats on its appeal!) the logo is back to English in the other lang wikis. What needs to be done to display the corresponding language logo?
Could you be more specific about which wikis you're talking about? I spot-checked de, vi, he, ar, and eo and they look fine.
I've translated the logos for several wikis last time around and I'm willing to do this again if needed.
Simply uploading the file doesn't do the trick... I believe.
That's right. That just uploads a file.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Jay Bowks wrote:
With the new look to the wiki, (congrats on its appeal!) the logo is back to English in the other lang wikis. What needs to be done to display the corresponding language logo?
Could you be more specific about which wikis you're talking about? I spot-checked de, vi, he, ar, and eo and they look fine.
el for example. As for the new look its nice but has messed up so many things (at least in the el world ) that am I supposed to start translating again? Could all this mess be avoided? Why wasn't it?
Andreas Kasenides wrote:
Jay Bowks wrote:
the logo is back to English in the other lang wikis.
el for example.
el is fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.
As for the new look its nice but has messed up so many things (at least in the el world ) that am I supposed to start translating again? Could all this mess be avoided? Why wasn't it?
We operate in the WikiWay; things are always fluid. If you want to get a jump on changes and make translations before new releases, you are welcome to follow development more closely. Sorry if that's a pain... :(
We have some scripts in the maintenance dir for listing messages that need yet to be translated for each language; it would be super great if someone could adapt these to generate automated notices when new messages arise. Volunteers are welcome!
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Andreas Kasenides wrote:
Jay Bowks wrote:
the logo is back to English in the other lang wikis.
el for example.
el is fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.
Thanks; please could you also update the 12 waiting requests on http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_logos ?
Thanks, Timwi
tr too.
-volkan
--- Andreas Kasenides Andreas.Kasenides@cs.ucy.ac.cy wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Jay Bowks wrote:
With the new look to the wiki, (congrats on its appeal!) the logo is back to English in the other lang wikis. What needs to be done to display the corresponding language logo?
Could you be more specific about which wikis you're talking about?
I
spot-checked de, vi, he, ar, and eo and they look fine.
el for example. As for the new look its nice but has messed up so many things (at least in the el world ) that am I supposed to start translating again? Could all this mess be avoided? Why wasn't it?
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Does anyone know what I need to do (if anything) in order to correct the problem of Greek characters not showing correctly (not always)? This anomaly, of course, happened after 1,3 upgrades and shows only in the monobook skin.
On a second note what happened (happening) with 1.3 upgrades should not happen again for the simple reason that if we are attract people to use and write for this project we need to keep it acceptably decent (not everyone is a programmer or tech support and not everyone is interested into the intricacies of programming). For example my 10-year old to whom I cannot seem to find a reasonble explanation why his small contribution looks (all greek to him) weird. And some wikis are not so popular as the English wikipedia, we can really not afford loosing anyone.
Thanx
Andreas Kasenides wrote:
Does anyone know what I need to do (if anything) in order to correct the problem of Greek characters not showing correctly (not always)?
Font rendering is up to your browser.
However, you haven't described the problem in enough detail. "Greek characters not showing correctly" doesn't exactly tell anyone what is wrong. el.wikipedia.org looks fine to me.
Timwi
Timwi wrote:
el.wikipedia.org looks fine to me.
On second inspection, it definitely does *not* look fine!
http://meta.wikipedia.org/upload/3/38/Greek_problem_screenshot.png
This seems to be a problem with the software. The messages in the MediaWiki namespace of [[el:]] are correct.
Someone seriously needs to fix that, quickly.
Timwi
Timwi wrote:
Timwi wrote:
el.wikipedia.org looks fine to me.
On second inspection, it definitely does *not* look fine!
http://meta.wikipedia.org/upload/3/38/Greek_problem_screenshot.png
This seems to be a problem with the software. The messages in the MediaWiki namespace of [[el:]] are correct.
Someone seriously needs to fix that, quickly.
Use the letter "i" instead of the number "1" in "π" and "φ".
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:29:09 -0700, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Use the letter "i" instead of the number "1" in "π" and "φ".
And "χ".
Cheers, Philip
Brion Vibber wrote:
Timwi wrote:
On second inspection, it definitely does *not* look fine! http://meta.wikipedia.org/upload/3/38/Greek_problem_screenshot.png This seems to be a problem with the software. The messages in the MediaWiki namespace of [[el:]] are correct.
Someone seriously needs to fix that, quickly.
Use the letter "i" instead of the number "1" in "π" and "φ".
Brion, if you read my message, you will see that I said "The messages in the MediaWiki namespace of [[el:]] are correct." They are using neither "π" nor "&p1;", but the correct UTF-8 character for Greek Pi.
Please fix this. (When Wikipedia is back up ...)
Thanks, Timwi
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/
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