https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29530
--- Comment #7 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> 2011-06-22 20:51:48 UTC --- > For each event a syntax (one single line containing begin and end date/time) > will be written that creates a link. The links will be placed in the > corresponding article. The users can combine as much syntaxes as they want > from > different articles and create their own interactive graph. Hmm, that's a kind of interesting idea but there's some serious usability issues with the display and the concept is still a bit unclear. A single-purpose extension here for creating those event 'links' seems very awkward and hard to maintain, in addition to simply being very confusing for users (clicking on a link bumps the page around vertically with no explanation if you're not at the top of the page, and if you are at the top of the page the view still is pretty unclear). Being able to extract general date information so you can put *any temporal event* into an interactive timeline, rather than just some handful that have been manually annotated specifically for it, would make it much more valuable and interesting. If something like that can be done, I'd probably recommend building a timeline tool like this as a JavaScript gadget, as that'll be much easier to deploy for opt-in usage. To make this something we'd really be excited about you'd also probably need ways to save and share the built timelines; while looking at one just for fun by yourself might be occasionally useful, saving one for yourself for your ongoing research, or saving one into an article where it can be seen as a whole, would be far more useful and allows building on each others' work. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
