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Extra info/text on events
At the moment you can extract/get information on events on Wikipedia, Twitter, YouTube and so on. It would be very useful to be able to create your own information, text, images, links and video. This would make the Histropedia tool much more useful for teachers and students for example.
2 votesWe agree this would be an excellent addition.
This functionality will be added along side the feature “create personal events” http://histropedia.uservoice.com/forums/246686-general/suggestions/6283224-create-personal-events-not-available-to-other-useYou will also be able to create a personal event by customising any existing event in the database.
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Identifying Events
It would be great if clicking on any point in the horizontal line that represents the duration of an event would pop up some info about that event (even just the title). On a complex time-line it is difficult to know which lines represent which events.
3 votesThis would be a very useful feature which would be good to discuss and develop in this community if anyone has any preferences they would like to share.
We are thinking of the following possible implementation:1. Clicking on the ‘period line’ (horizontal duration marker) would just select the event, allowing you to see which event the line represents.
2. Hover over the period line to have the ‘name’ and ‘date’ of the event pop up, without selecting the event.
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Sorting Events
It would be great if there was an option of rearranging the line-segments representing events with duration, so that they are sorted from bottom to top based on the start date of the event. Another option to sort based on end date would be equally useful. Since I am using histropedia primarily to plot life-times and long-duration events, these organizational options would make it even more useful to me.
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'On this day' tool
Choose any date, and be presented with a list of all of the anniversaries occurring on that date.
As a list, this could be separated into sections for anniversaries of different levels of significance (10 years, 100 years etc), and ordered by event rank so that the most 'important' events are at the top of the list.
An alternative view would be direct display of the results on the timeline. A lovely extra would be colour coding them by the type of anniversary (e.g. centenaries could be set to red)
Note: this has been posted by Histropedia, but was originally…
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Colour coded events
Allow the user to choose the colour of individual events on the timeline (to allow categorisation).
The user would be able specify what each colour means (e.g. Red = Battles), and this would be displayed on a 'key' that is saved with the timeline.
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Option to minimise the period lines
Period lines show the duration of the event. This feature would allow you to show/hide all of the period lines (useful for a timeline where the duration of each event is not so important).
When the period lines are set to hidden, the currently selected event and any starred events would still keep their period lines - this would allow you to pick out a few particular events that have a visible duration, while leaving all other events with hidden period lines.
The setting chosen by the user would also be saved and shared with their timeline.
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Filter the timeline using a Wikidata query
This feature would allow you to use any Wikidata query to filter the contents of the currently loaded timeline.
For example, you may wish to filter the timeline to show only People, or only events that occurred in a particular location (or any other of the infinite number of conditions that can be defined with Wikidata queries).
Negative queries could also be used to remove certain matching items from the timeline.
Ultimately, any user will be able to attach Wikidata based filters to timelines, so other users can turn them on or off with a simple tick box.
Note: this…
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Automatically generate the local history of a person or other event
If a person was known to live in a certain location (or various locations during their life), the system would be able to automatically add the local history of that person to the timeline, showing only the people, buildings and other events that were local to them at the time they lived.
The only input required would be the user deciding a distance of interest (e.g. anything within 30km of the person's location).
This would also work for any other event with a known location. For example, you may wish to generate the local history of a bridge, allowing you…
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Display personal family tree data on the timeline from a third party service (e.g. MyHeritage.com)
This feature would allow you to link with an existing account with a personal family tree service (e.g. myheritage.com or ancestry.com).
The family data that has been entered on the other site would be automatically imported and displayed on the timeline, with an option to colour code the people according to their family connection (e.g. grand-parents in Green, first cousins in blue etc).
You would then be able to create timelines using any combinations of your family tree events and the existing historical events and timelines in Histropedia, allowing you to build up a picture of what the world was…
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Automatically add descendents and relatives of a person to the timeline
When you select a person's event card on the timeline, pop up options would be displayed to allow the following:
Show descendants
Show family tree (i.e. all relatives)
In each case, the results would be added straight to the timeline.
As a further improvement, colour coding could be used to show the different types of family connection if desired.Please comment if there are any other relative related options that you would like to see available in the future.
Note: The functionality described is actually already available, but is quite advanced as knowledge of Wikidata Queries is required. The planned…
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Colour code events using a Wikidata query
Use any Wikidata query to assign a chosen colour to a group of events on the timeline.
E.g. On a timeline of World War I battles, you could mark every battle with greater than 10,000 casualties with a red colour.
Other great uses would be very quick colour coding of timelines by location, event type ("instance of") or date range.
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