Wikipedia:Timeline
| Timeline | |
|---|---|
| Date | Event |
| 1453 ce | Ottoman Turks take Constantinople. End of Byzantine Empire |
To the right is a basic template. These hopefuly will go into history sectionso f countrys and have main events in taht countries history. Or it can be use else where like an empire or ex-country or a person.
Currentlty wrkng on Byzantine Empire/temp
Using HTML table markup is very heavy on the page etxt in raw format. I think for timelines, the ; : format looks fine, and is much easier to work with -- Tarquin
Beg your pardon :-s? -fonzy
It's generally preferable to use Wiki markup and not HTML, for legibility (and other reasons, dotted around on talk pages and on WikiWiki). There are proposals to implement wiki-style table markup -- however, for a simple date list, I think the following style would suffice. It's much easier to work with. -- Tarquin
- 2003
- Tarquin elected President of the Universe
- 2004
- Tarquin decrees benevolent dictatorship
- 2006
- Tarquin abolishes tinned rice pudding
- 2009 - 2012
- Rice Pudding Wars in Europe
Fonzy I really appreciate your enthusiasm however what you propose here has already been done using much simpler markup. Besides there are already thousands of Year in Review pages. --mav
If i was looking up say. The Persian Empire, I would actually preferm just to look at a nice table to the right of key events. Rather than having to go all the way down te page to find something about the events or find a timeline. - fonzy
Timelines do exist already on wikipedia. See List of timelines and Timeline of invention for an example. In fact, they use markup even simpler than my example above. -- Tarquin
The First Tarquinian Dynasty
- 2003 : Tarquin elected President of the Universe
- 2004 : Tarquin decrees benevolent dictatorship
- 2006 : Tarquin abolishes tinned rice pudding
The Rice Pudding Wars
- 2009 - 2012 : Rice Pudding Wars in Europe
- 2013 The Restoration
YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!!! Having a nice quick table to the right is much nicer and easier and its good quick refrence for anyone wanthing to know a very brief history -fonzy
- If I understand you, you're suggesting the use of little table boxes with a quick overview of major events which can sit at the top of long history articles, and NOT suggesting that entire articles that are timelines should be giant tables. Am I right? --Brion