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
- I get the same impression as Brion here. If there indeed were such small timelines, a table would be fine. But as I just pointed out in Talk, that is unlikely to be the case. Jeronimo
Have you looked at Byzantine Empire/temp? thast what i am suggesting.
- That's fairly tasteful, I like it. Section headings in the main text that matched the events covered in the timeline would make it even nicer. --Brion
- Yeah, it looks ok, but I'd rather call it a "timeline outline". Anyway, the addition of "ce" should be removed, it's a wrong politically correct notation not used on Wikipedia.
- Sticking my oar in: does Wiki implement anchors? It might be nice if the short descriptions in the table were linked to the point in the article (a section heading in Brion's suggestion) where they're discussed in more depth; this would make the mini-timelines handy navigation aids as well as giving a general overview. But if it would involve doing things in raw HTML it might not be such a good idea. Then again the tables are already a big glut of HTML ... --Bth
- In-page anchors are not implemented. The concept has been raised from time to time on the mailing list, but it's controversial; the argument against is essentially that an article that's long enough it needs internal anchors is too long, and should be broken up. --Brion
- Side-tables in pages mean a ton of HTML at the top of the raw text. I'd prefer a link to a separate page. -- Tarquin