Hey!

Yes, I'm the author. I don't know of any issues on wikimedia-foundation wikis. It has been implemented on a mediawiki 1.12 and 1.13 wiki by myself on my home-pc as well as on an online mediawiki 1.12 at www.chaosreligion.com as you can see by youerself. The testing of extensions at http://extensiontesting.wikiation.nl seems to be a very good idea. I will look more closer at that ;)
 
After all I'm totally convinced it would work on wikimedia-foundation wikis without any problems.
 
greetings,
Markus



Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:36:32 +0100
From: cormaggio@gmail.com
To: wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] Request for activating the WikiTimeLine extension on wikiversity


On 7/31/08, M Sz <echalone@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
 
I think it would be a good idea to activate the WikiTimeLine MediaWiki extension in wikiversity. Here's a short description:
 
The MediaWiki extension WikiTimeLine version 1.0 is now released. It displays events, people, and such on an interactive timeline. Its working with JavaScript (client side, so it doesn't put load on the server) and its pretty interactive (moving around, zooming, clicking on events on the timeline). If you add WikiTimeLine tags with a start and end date to an article, you'll get a link in that article, and if you click on that link you'll add the event to the timeline. So its totally real-time. Unlike easytimeline which is creating pictures when the article is created, WikiTimeLine is controlled by the reader of the article, not the writer. So everyone can put together their own timeline to see how things went in history. It also allows ongoing events (that have not yet stopped) and alternative begin or end dates.
 
I think this would be a great extension for Wikiversity. Any interest in that?
 
greetings,
Markus
 
PS: Here are the links to the extension's webpages:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiTimeLine
and
http://www.chaosreligion.com/wtl/index.php5?title=WikiTimeLine
 


{{support}} :-)

Markus, are you the author of the extension? If so, do you know of any potential issues with its deployment on a wmf wiki? Has it been implemented on a wmf wiki? The more info we can give to the devs in order to get it turned on, the better. Incidentally, I was recently pointed to a site where you can test MW extensions in various configurations - could be useful: <http://extensiontesting.wikiation.nl>

Cheers,
Cormac

 

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