General
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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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Active Events for a Chosen Date
Most of the events I am recording are actually durations (specifically, life-spans and extended events). It would be very useful to be able to select a date and get a list of all the events that intersect that date.
1 voteThis is likely to be implemented very soon. We’ll update this message as once we have an estimate for the deployment date.
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Constrained Dragging
It's visually desirable to keep the line connecting an event to its date vertical - would it be possible to have an option that would constrain the dragging to vertical shifts only?
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Show Charts in the timeline background (from file, statistics or Wikidata)
The chart would be plotted on the 'timeline canvas', so it appeared as a background behind the events.
This would be amazing for seeing data related to the timeline you are viewing - For example, a chart of the population of a country against a timeline of it's military history.For data sources:
Option 1: FILES - The user could upload a .csv file for example.
Option 2: STATISTICS - Have a search system which shows results from a selection of publicly available statistics (which we could hopefully add to continuously).
Option 3: WIKIDATA - Choose a property from Wikidata,…
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