Mr Timeline

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Feedback on an interactive graphical timeline for Wikipedia content

Hi, my name is Navino Evans. I am the co-founder of a new UK based website called Histropedia which is aimed at making all the historical information in Wikipedia easily available on a timeline. I'm posting this on your page because of your experience in creating timelines for Wikipedia articles. Feedback from yourself would be regarded highly.

In short, what we are in the process of creating is an interactive graphical timeline which stays synchronised with new additions and changes in Wikipedia automatically and is completely free to use. Editors will be able to create timelines extremely quickly and easily by simply searching for each event and clicking on the result. It’s very early days yet, so please forgive the look and feel of the current version (as well as the obvious bugs) but we would be very grateful for any early feedback on the concept itself.

The controls are basically like Google Maps - click and drag to scroll time, zoom with the mouse wheel. You can 'open' an event by double clicking on it. More instructions are available here if needed. Please note that there are currently many events which are not available yet and some incorrect dates. Many of these will appear automatically as we update our algorithm, but full wiki style adding and editing will be available soon. Here are a few example timelines to give you the idea. Battles of the Hundred Years’ War , which was created in around 20mins. The Dalai Lamas, which was made in under 5 minutes. James Bond Novels, which took around 15mins. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Regards,NavinoEvans (talk) 03:27, 10 January 2013 (UTC)