Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline
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#2Looks cool, but text is severely crammed (~10 characters per line) on mobile which makes it hard to read.
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#3Aren't timelines usually ordered? Maybe it's a rendering issue (Firefox 106 on a Mac), but I'm seeing 1992 at the top of the timeline, then, as I scroll down, dates from 2021, 2022, 2021, 2022, 2030, 2022, in that order.
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#4Aren't timelines usually ordered? Maybe it's a rendering issue (Firefox 106 on a Mac), but I'm seeing 1992 at the top of the timeline, then, as I scroll down, dates from 2021, 2022, 2021, 2022, 2030, 2022, in that order.
Sounds like a rendering issue. I'm also on Firefox on Mac but I see them in correct order. They are however displayed in alternating left-right columns which I guess could mean there's some hackish element ordering behind the scenes.
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#5Looks cool, but I get a like of CORS errors in the console. Doesn't work.
Re: Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline
#6Aren't timelines usually ordered? Maybe it's a rendering issue (Firefox 106 on a Mac), but I'm seeing 1992 at the top of the timeline, then, as I scroll down, dates from 2021, 2022, 2021, 2022, 2030, 2022, in that order.
I’m also getting this strange ordering on mobile Safari.
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#7Aren't timelines usually ordered? Maybe it's a rendering issue (Firefox 106 on a Mac), but I'm seeing 1992 at the top of the timeline, then, as I scroll down, dates from 2021, 2022, 2021, 2022, 2030, 2022, in that order.
It's just a bug in the timeLine code — this would fix it:
return timeline.sort( ( a, b ) => b.unixTime - a.unixTime )Re: Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline
#8Love to see a timeline of world history. I have no idea as to how that would work.
When you are "zoomed out" do you get clumped eras like "Victorian" or "Age of Enlightenment"? Or since those are region-specific, does it just give you the regular spacing and boringness of "centuries"? Perhaps region does need to figure into the timeline so for the European belt you could still go with "Industrial Revolution" or "Edwardian" — that would overlap in areas with "Meiji" for Japan.
It also occurs to me that art had its own "eras" as well. Perhaps banding by geophysical location alone is rather limiting.
You ought to be able to zoom in of course and Wikipedia links to major wars (for example) appear — zoom in further and Wikipedia links to specific battles...
But then there are people as well: scientists, monarchs, explorers, artists....
The whole scale of the thing makes my head hurt. But if done "right" it would be, to me, the perfect interface to Wikipedia.
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#9Love to see a timeline of world history. I have no idea as to how that would work. When you are "zoomed out" do you get clumped eras like "Victorian" or "Age of Enlightenment"? Or since those are region-specific, does it just give you the regular spacing and boringness of "centuries"? Perhaps region does need to figure into the timeline so for the European belt you could still go with "Industrial Revolution" or "Edwa…
Not quite the same, but I've been working on geo-timeline views of Wikidata events.
WWII example: https://conze.pt/explore/World%20War%20II?l=en&t=link-split&...
Works of Rembrandt (by inception date and their location): https://conze.pt/explore/Rembrandt?l=en&t=link-split&i=Q5598...
Showing cultural periods is still to be worked out, but already supported somewhat: https://conze.pt/explore/Victorian%20era?l=en&t=link-split&i...
Re: Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline
#10Love to see a timeline of world history. I have no idea as to how that would work. When you are "zoomed out" do you get clumped eras like "Victorian" or "Age of Enlightenment"? Or since those are region-specific, does it just give you the regular spacing and boringness of "centuries"? Perhaps region does need to figure into the timeline so for the European belt you could still go with "Industrial Revolution" or "Edwa…
The old Britannica DVDs had this feature. Last saw it work in 2015. I don't know if they have it in the online subscription.