用戶:DukeAnt/EasyTimeline

常言道：一圖勝千言。對圖形年表而言，這是千真萬確的。 表格形式的事件和日期清單能給讀者提供了大量的細節，但可能無法提供概述、提供一個宏觀的視角。

2004年6月1日起，有了Wiki的方式來脫機撰寫圖形時間圖表。

語法描述見Help:EasyTimeline語法。

你可以在test.wikipedia.org試用EasyTimeline。

在維基百科外您也可以使用此工具，參見EasyTimeline項目網站；或在其他MediaWiki的安裝上激活EasyTimeline，參見激活EasyTimeline。

無障礙性

為了給無法看到圖像的人們提供無障礙性訪問，請確保文章的文字也能表達所有相關的信息，或者連結到一篇能表達所有信息的文章。參見WP:ACCESS。

圖表示例

這裏有兩個簡單的例子。對於更深入的例子，參見第二次世界大戰的太平洋戰場、計算機年表以及環法自行車賽冠軍

另一個很好的例子（它壓根就不是時間線）是聲樂和器樂音高範圍。

Code example

Just to show you that the script syntax is reasonably intuitive: here is the script for the image to the left: Soviet Leaders.

# All measures are in pixels

ImageSize  = width:160 height:550
PlotArea   = left:50 right:0 bottom:10 top:10
AlignBars  = justify

DateFormat = yyyy
Period     = from:1919 till:1991
TimeAxis   = orientation:vertical
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920

# there is no automatic collision detection,
# so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar

PlotData=
  bar:Leaders color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S

  from:start till:1922 shift:($dx,15)   text:Vladimir~Ilyich~[[Lenin]]
  from:1922  till:1953 shift:($dx,5)    text:[[Stalin|Josef~Stalin]]
  from:1953  till:1964 shift:($dx,5)    text:Nikita~[[Khrushchev]]
  from:1964  till:1982 shift:($dx,5)    text:Leonid~[[Brezhnev]]
  from:1982  till:1984 shift:($dx,-12)  text:Yuri~[[Andropov]]
  from:1984  till:1985 shift:($dx,4)    text:Konstantin~[[Chernenko]] fontsize:XS
  from:1985  till:end  shift:($dx,10)   text:Mikhail~[[Gorbachev]]

Double and single brackets can be used like on wikipedia, language prefix is possible, e.g. [[de:foo|more about foo]]. Single brackets for external links are also supported.

Great Timelines Elsewhere

Here are two great sites that may serve as inspiration, it would be very easy to recreate most of those timelines verbatim and with roughly similar layout with EasyTimeline (not yet with images but that may change), but I'm afraid that would be 'not done'.

• Hyperhistory (e.g. click on button 'people' left, then on 'special lifelines', right.
• I hope we will have a set like [1] in a years time (click on full size image for any map), possibly even with images. The main effort will be to gather all info without snatching everything from here (most of these maps are based exclusively on data from Brittanica).

Unicode

EasyTimeline does not yet support Unicode. This will be added later. So better not use it on Unicode enabled Wikipedias yet.

Aug 2004: Minimal UTF-8 support has been added, meaning that EasyTimeline now recognizes UTF-8 encoded characters. However only extended ASCII accented characters can be shown and not even all of them (rendering package Ploticus has an incomplete ASCII set in its internal font). So full Unicode support will have to wait until external font support has been added (planned late in 2004, other Wikipedia projects take priority right now).

Tips

For first time users EasyTimeline may not seem that easy at all. As with all script languages it takes some getting used to. Also the syntax description may be a bit bewildering due to its sheer size. Fortunately many elements of the script language are optional.

The 'Easy' in EasyTimeline conveys the message that once a timeline exists it is not so hard to understand, enhance or correct. Also translating for use on another wikipedia it is pretty straightforward.

Tips:

• What most editors did so far: find a timeline that is similar to what you want to accomplish and use this as a model. This will get you started.
• Put each timeline on a separate Template page: this makes it easier to edit, faster to preview, possible to include it in several pages
• Feel free to ask Erik Zachte (the author of EasyTime) for help or advice.

參見

• Wikipedia:年表標準
• Wikipedia:年表表達式
• mw:Extension:EasyTimeline