[Wikiversity-l] Request for activating the WikiTimeLine extension on wikiversity

Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 23:12:28 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:04 PM, M Sz <echalone at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I think it would be a good idea to activate the WikiTimeLine MediaWiki
> extension in wikiversity. 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 Wikiversity. Any interest in
> that?
>
> greetings,
> Markus
>
> PS: Here are the links to the extension's webpages:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiTimeLine
> and
> http://www.chaosreligion.com/wtl/index.php5?title=WikiTimeLine
>
>
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That's neat. I was looking at http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ and
wondered why don't we use better timelines than the usual static ones
from wikipedia



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