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This task involves the work with of introducing a dedicated workflow to help people create timelines (read: display a list of events in chronological order). === Stories - As someone who arrived at Wikipedia seeking to develop a general understanding of a person's life, a conflict, a scientific discovery, a nation, a culture, a sociological phenomenon, etc., I would like to able to search for //and// see the significant events related to said topic, so that I can quickly learn how this person/war/idea/movement/etc. developed, became historically significant, and perhaps, relevant to "me." - As someone who who is motivated to improve Wikipedia, I would like to be able to easily order and display the notable events within a given page, so that people who come after me will have an easier time understanding the subject at-hand. - As someone who finds images/sounds/videos help them learn more effectively, I would like to be able to add/relate a file from Commons to a particular event, so that I can more deeply understand the topic/person/idea/event at-hand. === Background Many wikipedia articles include events mapped to points in time. [i] Relating events to time in a visual way seems to be valuable enough to readers that volunteers have created many custom ways of presenting time-based information. [ii] And while some volunteers have discovered these templates and used them to visually relate time and events [ii], many articles A) lack any kind of visual relating time and events [iv] or B) have done so in ways that could be improved to help people search for, understand, engage with, and use as a vector for discovery [v] === Open questions - [ ] 1. What percentage of articles, across projects contain dates and events (read: information that would make sense to display in a timeline-like experience)? - [ ] 2. Would current – and prospective – readers find a timeline-like experience to be an intuitive and helpful way to learn, retrieve information, etc? === Hypotheses/Possibilities/Assumptions - Framing editing/contributing to Wikipedia as adding/documenting an "event" will cause people who might never have considered editing to **a)** clearly see/understand what doing so would be like and **b)** see opportunities to contribute to Wikipedia that they wouldn't have noticed otherwise - Enabling people to explore Wikipedia through time will cause them to explore pages and learn things they wouldn't have had they been navigating via topics === Related - Routemap templates ([demo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Rdt_demo) | [project page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Route_diagram_template)): an example of a powerful timeline-like template that's used on ~15,200 en.wiki article pages: [Template:BS-map in use on ~2,200 article pages](https://linkcount.toolforge.org/index.php?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Template:BS-map&namespaces=0) + [Template:Routemap in use on ~13,000 article pages](https://linkcount.toolforge.org/index.php?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Template:Routemap&namespaces=0). - Histropedia: a Wikidata- and Wikipedia-powered timeline project that contains ~300,000 timelines. //E.g. [Pixar animated films](http://histropedia.com/timeline/2j2stpg9bg0t/Pixar-animated-films), [Universities throughout the world](http://histropedia.com/timeline/z7kb59m2lz/Universities), [Scientists](http://histropedia.com/timeline/5x2ts53jzr/Scientists) --- i. Search of pages in the main namespace that include the word "Timeline": en.wiki ([130,000 articles dedicated to timelines](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=Timeline+of&ns0=1&searchToken=5nbfcglqgvp5lx6ipdlkg24h)), es.wiki ([2,100 articles dedicated to "línea de tiempo"](https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Buscar&limit=500&offset=0&ns0=1&ns100=1&ns104=1&search=%22l%C3%ADnea+de+tiempo%22&searchToken=atslgq61lmy2vgys7y4yv6q5v)) ii. [Extension:EasyTimeline](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline), [Category:Graphical timeline templates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graphical_timeline_templates), [Category:Timeline templates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Timeline_templates) iii. [bn:History of computing](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82-%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8), [ja:Extinction events](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%9F%E7%89%A9%E9%9B%86%E7%BE%A4%E7%81%AD%E7%BB%9D#%E5%85%B6%E5%AE%83%E7%81%AD%E7%BB%9D%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6), [en:Imam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam#Twelver) iv. [ru:Historical varieties of window openings](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%BE#%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2), [en:The history of thermal insulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_insulation#The_history_of_thermal_insulation), [en:Architecture of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_India), [en:Plywood history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plywood#History), [es: History of peanut butter](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantequilla_de_cacahuete#Historia) v. [en:Invention of radio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio#Radio_invention_timeline), [en:Gaius Marius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Marius#Timeline), [af: Voyager 2 travel timeline](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Sendinginligting)

This task involves the work with of introducing a dedicated workflow to help people create timelines (read: display a list of events in chronological order). === Stories - As someone who arrived at Wikipedia seeking to develop a general understanding of a person's life, a conflict, a scientific discovery, a nation, a culture, a sociological phenomenon, etc., I would like to able to search for //and// see the significant events related to said topic, so that I can quickly learn how this person/war/idea/movement/etc. developed, became historically significant, and perhaps, relevant to "me." - As someone who who is motivated to improve Wikipedia, I would like to be able to easily order and display the notable events within a given page, so that people who come after me will have an easier time understanding the subject at-hand. - As someone who finds images/sounds/videos help them learn more effectively, I would like to be able to add/relate a file from Commons to a particular event, so that I can more deeply understand the topic/person/idea/event at-hand. === Background Many Wikipedia articles include events mapped to points in time. [i] Some Wikipedia articles are entirely dedicated to mapping events to points in time. [ii] Relating events to time in a visual way seems to be valuable enough to readers that volunteers have created many custom ways of presenting time-based information. [iii] And while some volunteers have discovered these templates and used them to visually relate time and events [iv], many articles A) lack any kind of visual relating time and events [v] or B) have done so in ways that could be improved to help people search for, understand, engage with, and use as a vector for discovery [vi] === Open questions - [ ] 1. What percentage of articles, across projects contain dates and events (read: information that would make sense to display in a timeline-like experience)? - [ ] 2. Would current – and prospective – readers find a timeline-like experience to be an intuitive and helpful way to learn, retrieve information, etc? === Hypotheses/Possibilities/Assumptions - Framing editing/contributing to Wikipedia as adding/documenting an "event" will cause people who might never have considered editing to **a)** clearly see/understand what doing so would be like and **b)** see opportunities to contribute to Wikipedia that they wouldn't have noticed otherwise - Enabling people to explore Wikipedia through time will cause them to explore pages and learn things they wouldn't have had they been navigating via topics === Related - Routemap templates ([demo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Rdt_demo) | [project page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Route_diagram_template)): an example of a powerful timeline-like template that's used on ~15,200 en.wiki article pages: [Template:BS-map in use on ~2,200 article pages](https://linkcount.toolforge.org/index.php?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Template:BS-map&namespaces=0) + [Template:Routemap in use on ~13,000 article pages](https://linkcount.toolforge.org/index.php?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Template:Routemap&namespaces=0). - Histropedia: a Wikidata- and Wikipedia-powered timeline project that contains ~300,000 timelines. //E.g. [Pixar animated films](http://histropedia.com/timeline/2j2stpg9bg0t/Pixar-animated-films), [Universities throughout the world](http://histropedia.com/timeline/z7kb59m2lz/Universities), [Scientists](http://histropedia.com/timeline/5x2ts53jzr/Scientists) --- i. Search of pages in the main namespace that include the word "Timeline": en.wiki ([130,000 articles dedicated to timelines](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=Timeline+of&ns0=1&searchToken=5nbfcglqgvp5lx6ipdlkg24h)), es.wiki ([2,100 articles dedicated to "línea de tiempo"](https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Buscar&limit=500&offset=0&ns0=1&ns100=1&ns104=1&search=%22l%C3%ADnea+de+tiempo%22&searchToken=atslgq61lmy2vgys7y4yv6q5v)) ii. [en:Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2009)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2009)), [en:Timeline of the Egyptian revolution of 2011](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Egyptian_revolution_of_2011), [Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria (February–June 2020)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Nigeria_(February%E2%80%93June_2020)). See also: [Special:Categories "Timelines"](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Categories&offset=Timelines&limit=500) iii. [Extension:EasyTimeline](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline), [Category:Graphical timeline templates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graphical_timeline_templates), [Category:Timeline templates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Timeline_templates) iv. [bn:History of computing](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82-%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8), [ja:Extinction events](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%9F%E7%89%A9%E9%9B%86%E7%BE%A4%E7%81%AD%E7%BB%9D#%E5%85%B6%E5%AE%83%E7%81%AD%E7%BB%9D%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6), [en:Imam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam#Twelver) v. [ru:Historical varieties of window openings](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%BE#%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2), [en:The history of thermal insulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_insulation#The_history_of_thermal_insulation), [en:Architecture of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_India), [en:Plywood history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plywood#History), [es: History of peanut butter](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantequilla_de_cacahuete#Historia) vi. [en:Invention of radio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio#Radio_invention_timeline), [en:Gaius Marius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Marius#Timeline), [af: Voyager 2 travel timeline](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Sendinginligting)

This task involves the work with of introducing a dedicated workflow to help people create timelines (read: display a list of events in chronological order). === Stories - As someone who arrived at Wikipedia seeking to develop a general understanding of a person's life, a conflict, a scientific discovery, a nation, a culture, a sociological phenomenon, etc., I would like to able to search for //and// see the significant events related to said topic, so that I can quickly learn how this person/war/idea/movement/etc. developed, became historically significant, and perhaps, relevant to "me." - As someone who who is motivated to improve Wikipedia, I would like to be able to easily order and display the notable events within a given page, so that people who come after me will have an easier time understanding the subject at-hand. - As someone who finds images/sounds/videos help them learn more effectively, I would like to be able to add/relate a file from Commons to a particular event, so that I can more deeply understand the topic/person/idea/event at-hand. === Background Many wWikipedia articles include events mapped to points in time. [i] Some Wikipedia articles are entirely dedicated to mapping events to points in time. [ii] Relating events to time in a visual way seems to be valuable enough to readers that volunteers have created many custom ways of presenting time-based information. [iii] And while some volunteers have discovered these templates and used them to visually relate time and events [iiiv], many articles A) lack any kind of visual relating time and events [iv] or B) have done so in ways that could be improved to help people search for, understand, engage with, and use as a vector for discovery [vi] === Open questions - [ ] 1. What percentage of articles, across projects contain dates and events (read: information that would make sense to display in a timeline-like experience)? - [ ] 2. Would current – and prospective – readers find a timeline-like experience to be an intuitive and helpful way to learn, retrieve information, etc? === Hypotheses/Possibilities/Assumptions - Framing editing/contributing to Wikipedia as adding/documenting an "event" will cause people who might never have considered editing to **a)** clearly see/understand what doing so would be like and **b)** see opportunities to contribute to Wikipedia that they wouldn't have noticed otherwise - Enabling people to explore Wikipedia through time will cause them to explore pages and learn things they wouldn't have had they been navigating via topics === Related - Routemap templates ([demo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Rdt_demo) | [project page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Route_diagram_template)): an example of a powerful timeline-like template that's used on ~15,200 en.wiki article pages: [Template:BS-map in use on ~2,200 article pages](https://linkcount.toolforge.org/index.php?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Template:BS-map&namespaces=0) + [Template:Routemap in use on ~13,000 article pages](https://linkcount.toolforge.org/index.php?project=en.wikipedia.org&page=Template:Routemap&namespaces=0). - Histropedia: a Wikidata- and Wikipedia-powered timeline project that contains ~300,000 timelines. //E.g. [Pixar animated films](http://histropedia.com/timeline/2j2stpg9bg0t/Pixar-animated-films), [Universities throughout the world](http://histropedia.com/timeline/z7kb59m2lz/Universities), [Scientists](http://histropedia.com/timeline/5x2ts53jzr/Scientists) --- i. Search of pages in the main namespace that include the word "Timeline": en.wiki ([130,000 articles dedicated to timelines](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=Timeline+of&ns0=1&searchToken=5nbfcglqgvp5lx6ipdlkg24h)), es.wiki ([2,100 articles dedicated to "línea de tiempo"](https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Buscar&limit=500&offset=0&ns0=1&ns100=1&ns104=1&search=%22l%C3%ADnea+de+tiempo%22&searchToken=atslgq61lmy2vgys7y4yv6q5v)) ii. [Extension:EasyTimeline](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimelineen:Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency (2009)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Barack_Obama_presidency_(2009)), [en:Timeline of the Egyptian revolution of 2011](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Egyptian_revolution_of_2011), [Category:Graphical timeline templatesTimeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria (February–June 2020)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graphical_timeline_templates),Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Nigeria_(February%E2%80%93June_2020)). [Category:Timeline templatesSee also: [Special:Categories "Timelines"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//index.php?title=Special:Category:ies&offset=Timeline_templatess&limit=500) iii. [bn:History of computing](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82-%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8Extension:EasyTimeline](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline), [ja:Extinction eventCategory:Graphical timeline templates](https://zhen.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%9F%E7%89%A9%E9%9B%86%E7%BE%A4%E7%81%AD%E7%BB%9D#%E5%85%B6%E5%AE%83%E7%81%AD%E7%BB%9D%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6Category:Graphical_timeline_templates), [en:ImamCategory:Timeline templates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam#TwelverCategory:Timeline_templates) iv. [ru:Historical varieties of window openings](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%BE#%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2), [en:The history of thermal insulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_insulation#The_history_of_thermal_insulation), [en:Architecture of India](https://ebn:History of computing](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_India%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82-%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8), [en:Plywood historyja:Extinction events](https://enzh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plywood#History%E7%94%9F%E7%89%A9%E9%9B%86%E7%BE%A4%E7%81%AD%E7%BB%9D#%E5%85%B6%E5%AE%83%E7%81%AD%E7%BB%9D%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6), [es: History of peanut butteren:Imam](https://esn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantequilla_de_cacahuete#HistoriaImam#Twelver) v. [ru:Historical varieties of window openings](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%BE#%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2), [en:The history of thermal insulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_insulation#The_history_of_thermal_insulation), [en:Architecture of India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_India), [en:Plywood history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plywood#History), [es: History of peanut butter](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantequilla_de_cacahuete#Historia) vi. [en:Invention of radio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio#Radio_invention_timeline), [en:Gaius Marius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Marius#Timeline), [af: Voyager 2 travel timeline](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Sendinginligting)