timeline
Timelines describe the events that occurred before another event, leading up to it, causing it, and also those that occurred right afterward that were attributable to it.
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Timelines are often bulleted lists or tables. Timelines in paragraph format (proselines) are not recommended.
Guidelines
WikiProject Timeline Tracer is making an effort, as of January 2008, to seek out and standardize timeline and chronological references.
See also the Featured list criteria and Wiki: Lists as style guides, and relevant Featured lists such as Timeline of chemistry, Timeline of the Manhattan Project, and List of sieges of Gibraltar as examples.
Graphical timelines
- Category:Graphical timelines
- Uploaded images of timelines
- {{Include timeline}}, an easy way of including editable template-based horizontal or vertical graphical timelines.
- mw:Extension:EasyTimeline, editable code-based timelines using Erik Zachte's extension for MediaWiki,
Days, years, decades, centuries, millennia
Wiki-wide date-based timeline (See any date: June 1, 1930s, 1952, 1900s, etc)
Templates
- {{For timeline}} – hatnote to point to timeline
- {{Navbox timeline}} – infobox
- {{Include timeline}} – easier method of using the 2 below
- {{Timeline Legend}}
- {{Prose timeline}} – the cleanup tag
Using hCalendar
- {{Timeline-start}} – \
- {{Timeline-item}} – These three templates make a list (technically, an HTML definition list) of events.
- {{Timeline-end}} – /
- {{Timeline-event}}
- {{Timeline-links}} – produces Timeline from a series of hCalendar microformats
See also
- Main listing: List of timelines
- Main categories: Category:Timelines, part of Category:Chronology
- Main articles: Timeline, Chronology
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