[Foundation-l] EasyTimeline and WikiHiero enabled on all wikis

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at 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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