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Re: Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline

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Post by 8bitsrule »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #8

Love 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…

Unfortunately each WP article must be converted into a WinkNLP’s document first.

> Love to see a timeline of world history.

Granted. You could start here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Centuries]

Alternately, start where you want. Warning: this will take a while.

Re: Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline

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Post by mongol »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #8

Love 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…

Check out the Android app History Timeline

Re: Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline

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Post by badcppdev »

Interesting for me because the example on the page: "2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference" shows a neatly presented timeline that is full of sentences with dates attached that have no consistency with their importance or theme.

Confirmation bias for me is: the software doesn't understand anything so the summary (or transformation) is nonsensical.

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Post by maneesh »

mongol wrote: post #13
JKCalhoun wrote: post #8

Love 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…

Check out the Android app History Timeline

Wow this is so cool! Thank you for the recommendation!

Re: Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline

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Post by max-m »

badcppdev wrote: post #14

Interesting for me because the example on the page: "2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference" shows a neatly presented timeline that is full of sentences with dates attached that have no consistency with their importance or theme. Confirmation bias for me is: the software doesn't understand anything so the summary (or transformation) is nonsensical.

The "timeline" for the article about Wikipedia itself starts in 1408, even though the event it chose was on September 9th, 2007. And this theme of seemingly random years being chosen for display continues :D Right now this tools lacks context awareness. "Oh, this looks like a date, put this on the timeline!"

Re: Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline

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Post by viking2917 »

Love this concept!

Implementation seems a bit erratic, e.g. tried it on the Richard I page (Richard the Lionheart), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England and get most random modern dates of research articles, and virtually none of the basic dates of his life (birth death, etc).

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Post by ngcc_hk »

wanderingstan wrote: post #6
lastofthemojito wrote: post #3

Aren'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.

So am I. Not seem very reliable.
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