Yes, I've used tp://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ as an inspiration for wikitimeline and compined it with my knowledge from my previous project, http://www.wikitimescale.org After mixing the best of those two projects I think I've created a very usefull tool for Wikiversity and any other MediaWiki wiki.
greetings, Markus
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:12:28 -0500> From: pdsanchez@gmail.com> To: wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] Request for activating the WikiTimeLine extension on wikiversity> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:04 PM, M Sz echalone@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%3E > and> > http://www.chaosreligion.com/wtl/index.php5?title=WikiTimeLine%3E >> >> > ________________________________> > Bis zu 500 Fotos im Monat für Freunde und Familie freigeben! Jetzt gratis> > auf Windows Live Spaces Hier klicken!> > _______________________________________________> > Wikiversity-l mailing list> > Wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l%3E >> >> > 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> > _______________________________________________> Wikiversity-l mailing list> Wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l
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