Wikimania05/Presentation-EZ1
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This page is part of the Proceedings of Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.
Editing notes:
- Will this be a full paper?
Unified Timeline of Human History edit
- Author(s): Erik Zachte
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- Language: English
- Slides: {{{slides}}}
- Video: {{{video}}}
- Note: Presentation
About the author(s): Erik Zachte has been part of the Wikimedia community for almost three years. He developed several perl scripts that supplement mediawiki functionality. EasyTimeline is one those. He works as a software engineer for Dutch airline KLM.
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Abstract edit
This will not be an in depth tutorial. Rather an overview of what has been accomplished with EasyTimeline so far, and a vision for a very ambitious follow-up.
One year ago EasyTimeline was introduced on Mediawiki.
Approx. 300 graphical timelines have been created since, and some 200 were translated for other wikipedias.
I will
- Show some remarkable examples of existing timelines.
- Then very briefly talk about the Easytimeline syntax and show how a timeline is made step by step (don't worry, just three sheets)
- Announce the long awaited and now soon to be expected support for unicode and for external fonts.
- Promote a new project 'Grand Unified Timeline of Human History' (ambition level: high / target date: beyond soon)
Online files edit
The presentation is online as two PDF files, sheets and speaker notes.