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 sections of countries and have main events in that country's history. Or it can be used elsewhere like for an empire or ex-country or a person.
Currently working 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.
- I beg your pardon, but since when is CE a "wrong politically incorrect notation not used on Wikipedia"? A lot of people, including me, think it is very much preferable to AD; and I cannot remember anyone banning it from the 'pedia (I'm not even sure who if anyone would have the authority to do so...) Of course, CE should be capitals, not "ce" as in the example above -- SJK
- 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.
The reason i chose CE was because its less biased. There are more than just christians on wikipedia. CE is the less religious way to do it. - fonzy
- Maybe I'm wacky this way, but I don't see changing one acronym to another as being "less biased" or "less religious", or even relevent in any way. The simple fact is that the standard Western calendar is based on a cycle for calculating Christian religious holidays no matter which two letters you put after the year. That doesn't mean I'm against "CE", I just don't see a purpose for it. --Brion
The point is i am not christian or any religion. I am just monotheist. But i dont agree with using AD as i do nto beleive christ was the messiah. I'm shore Jesus was a real person. But anyway CE is not targetd at any religion and wiipedia should not be targetd at any religion either. OK? - fonzy
- Sure, fonzy. Because using one opaque acronym instead of another magically changes everything! --Brion
I am not going to argue about this! - fonzy
- 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
- I take it you're not a big fan of WikiProject Countries, WikiProject Elements, or WikiProject Tree of Life? --Brion
- The projects themselves are great, and the taxoboxes and element boxes are great. They just have drawbacks: but I've already said elsewhere that HTML tables make articles hard to edit; and moreover, floating the tables because forces a narrow column of text which makes the rendered article harder to read too. -- Tarquin
OK then put thsi thing to the vote if it will make you happy.
If you have seen the xample page: Byzantine Empire/temp please vote:
- Like: fonzy
- with reservations: Brion (it seems to be increasing in length which is dangerous; should also be integrated better with section headings in text)
- Dont like: