Hi Bernhard,
Could you enumerate what features you would ideally like to see in a
timeline format? The Exhibit Timeline library, which is used by SMW (and,
let me note, by Cargo as well), is indeed old and poorly-maintained, but it
still works fine. I'm guessing that you would also prefer the Histropedia
and CHAP Timeline libraries because of their different displays (such as
showing an image for each event) and/or additional features, though I could
be wrong.
-Yaron
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Krabina Bernhard <krab...@kdz.or.at> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I wrote to the Histopedia team if it was possible to get some kind of
> histopedia result format for SMW. The problem with the timeline and
> eventline formats is that they are very old and not maintained.
>
> Here is some snippets of what they wrote me:
>
> "We've recently released a JavaScript library called HistropediaJS, which
> allows you to use any data source with the Histropedia timeline engine. The
> basic licence is free for non-commercial use, including the right to edit
> the code where advanced customisation is required (most simple
> customisation can be done with the built in options). Is this licence
> permissive enough for use in SMW wikis? We do plan on open sourcing at some
> point, but not sure of the timescale yet as we need to get a bit further
> with our business model first. p.s. Very happy to offer any
> advise/assistance needed in using HistropediaJS"
>
> So my questions to the SMW developers:
> 1. Is anybody interested in developing a new result format based on
> Histopedia.js
> 2. Is anybody interested in taking over https://www.mediawiki.org/
> wiki/Extension:ChapTimeline - another abandoned approach on prividing a
> new timeline format
> 3. Is anybody interested in doing another sort of current
> timline/eventline format
>
> I am happy to connect you with the Histopedia person.
>
> To the users/organisations: is anybody interested in this and can put up
> some funding?
>
> cheers,
> Bernhard
>
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