Wikipedia:Timeline
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This help page is a how-to guide.
It explains concepts or processes used by the Wikipedia community. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, and may reflect varying levels of consensus.
For <timeline> extension help, see Help:EasyTimeline syntax.
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. Timelines are often bulleted lists or tables. Timelines in paragraph format (proselines) are not recommended.
Guidelines
[edit ]Main page: Wikipedia:Timeline standards
For help with embedding EasyTimeline timelines in Wikipedia, see Help:EasyTimeline syntax and mw:Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax.
See Featured list criteria and Wikipedia: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
[edit ]- 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, <timeline>
Days, years, decades, centuries, millennia
[edit ]Wikipedia-wide date-based timeline (See any date: June 1, 1930s, 1952, 1900s, etc)
- Wikipedia:Timeline standards
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Years
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Timeline Tracer
Templates
[edit ]- {{For timeline }} – hatnote to point to timeline
- {{Navbox timeline }} – infobox
- {{Include timeline }} – easier method of using the 2 below
- {{Graphical timeline }}
- {{Horizontal timeline }}
(削除) {{Timeline Legend }} (削除ここまで){{Legend inline }} or {{Legend table }}- {{Prose timeline }} – the cleanup tag
Using hCalendar
[edit ]See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats
- {{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
[edit ]- Main listing: List of timelines
- Main category: Category:Wikipedia timelines
- Main articles: Timeline, Chronology