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{{Wikipedia howto|WP:TIMEL|WP:TIMELINE}}

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<TH COLSPAN="2" BGCOLOR="red">Timeline</TH>

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<TD COLSPAN="2"><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2"><B>Byzantine Empire</B></FONT></CENTER></TD>

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<TH>Date</TH>

<TH>Event</TH>

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<TD>[[1453|1453 ce]]</TD>

<TD WIDTH="220px">Ottoman Turks take Constantinople. End of Byzantine Empire</TD>

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To the right is a basic template. These hopefuly will go into history sectionso f countrys and have main events in taht countries history. Or it can be use else where like an empire or ex-country or a person.

'''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 ([[wikipedia:Proseline|proselines]]) are not recommended.

Currentlty wrkng on [[Byzantine Empire/temp]]

==Guidelines==

{{Main|Wikipedia:Timeline standards}}

{{selfref|For help with embedding EasyTimeline timelines in Wikipedia, see [[Help:EasyTimeline syntax]] and [[:mw:Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax]].}}

See [[Wikipedia:Featured list criteria|Featured list criteria]] and [[Wikipedia:Lists]] as style guides, and relevant [[Wikipedia:Featured lists|Featured lists]] such as [[Timeline of chemistry]], [[Timeline of the Manhattan Project]], and [[List of sieges of Gibraltar]] as examples.

Using HTML table markup is very heavy on the page etxt in raw format. I think for timelines, the ; : format looks fine, and is much easier to work with -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]]

==Graphical timelines==

Beg your pardon :-s? -fonzy

* [[:Category:Graphical timelines]]

** Uploaded images of timelines

** {{tl|Include timeline}}, an easy way of including editable template-based [[Template:Horizontal timeline|horizontal]] or [[Template:Graphical timeline|vertical]] graphical timelines.

** [[mw:Extension:EasyTimeline]], editable code-based timelines using Erik Zachte's extension for MediaWiki, <nowiki><timeline></nowiki>

==Days, years, decades, centuries, millennia==

It's generally preferable to use Wiki markup and not HTML, for legibility (and other reasons, dotted around on talk pages and on [[WikiWiki]]). There are proposals to implement wiki-style table markup -- however, for a simple date list, I think the following style would suffice. It's much easier to work with. -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]]

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 ==

* {{Tl|For timeline}} – hatnote to point to timeline

* {{Tl|Navbox timeline}} – infobox

* {{Tl|Include timeline}} – easier method of using the 2 below

** {{Tl|Graphical timeline}}

** {{Tl|Horizontal timeline}}

* {{strike| {{Tl|Timeline Legend}}}} {{Tl|Legend inline}} or {{Tl|Legend table}}

* {{Tl|Prose timeline}} – the cleanup tag

=== Using hCalendar ===

; 2003 : Tarquin elected President of the Universe

{{See also|Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats}}

; 2004 : Tarquin decrees benevolent dictatorship

; 2006 : Tarquin abolishes tinned [[rice pudding]]

; 2009 - 2012 : Rice Pudding Wars in Europe

* {{Tl|Timeline-start}} – \

* {{Tl|Timeline-item}} – These three templates make a list (technically, an HTML definition list) of events.

* {{Tl|Timeline-end}} – /

* {{tl|Timeline-event}}

* {{Tl|Timeline-links}} – produces Timeline from a series of [[hCalendar]] [[microformat]]s

==See also==

Fonzy I really appreciate your enthusiasm however what you propose here has already been done using much simpler markup. Besides there are already thousands of [[Year in Review]] pages. --[[User:Maveric149|mav]]

* Main listing: [[List of timelines]]

* Main category: [[:Category:Category:Wikipedia timelines]]

* Main articles: [[Timeline]], [[Chronology]]

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If i was looking up say. The Persian Empire, I would actually preferm just to look at a nice table to the right of key events. Rather than having to go all the way down te page to find something about the events or find a timeline. - fonzy

[[Category:Wikipedia timelines]]

Timelines do exist already on wikipedia. See [[List of timelines]] and [[Timeline of invention]] for an example. In fact, they use markup even simpler than my example above. -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]]

====The First Tarquinian Dynasty====

* 2003 : Tarquin elected President of the Universe

* 2004 : Tarquin decrees benevolent dictatorship

* 2006 : Tarquin abolishes tinned [[rice pudding]]

====The Rice Pudding Wars====

* 2009 - 2012 : Rice Pudding Wars in Europe

* 2013 The Restoration

YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!!! Having a nice quick table to the right is much nicer and easier and its good quick refrence for anyone wanthing to know a very brief history -fonzy

:If I understand you, you're suggesting the use of little table boxes with a quick overview of major events which can sit at the top of long history articles, and NOT suggesting that ''entire'' articles that ''are'' timelines should be giant tables. Am I right? --[[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion]]

:: I get the same impression as Brion here. If there indeed were such small timelines, a table would be fine. But as I just pointed out in Talk, that is unlikely to be the case. [[User:Jheijmans|Jeronimo]]

Have you looked at [[Byzantine Empire/temp]]? thast what i am suggesting.

:That's fairly tasteful, I like it. Section headings in the main text that matched the events covered in the timeline would make it even nicer. --[[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion]]

:: Yeah, it looks ok, but I'd rather call it a "timeline outline". Anyway, the addition of "ce" should be removed, it's a wrong politically correct notation not used on Wikipedia.

::Sticking my oar in: does Wiki implement anchors? It might be nice if the short descriptions in the table were linked to the point in the article (a section heading in Brion's suggestion) where they're discussed in more depth; this would make the mini-timelines handy navigation aids as well as giving a general overview. But if it would involve doing things in raw HTML it might not be such a good idea. Then again the tables are already a big glut of HTML ... --[[User:Bth|Bth]]

:::In-page anchors are not implemented. The concept has been raised from time to time on [[Wikipedia-L|the mailing list]], but it's controversial; the argument against is essentially that an article that's long enough it needs internal anchors is too long, and should be broken up. --[[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion]]

: Side-tables in pages mean a ton of HTML at the top of the raw text. I'd prefer a link to a separate page. -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]]

::I take it you're not a big fan of [[WikiProject Countries]], [[WikiProject Elements]], or [[WikiProject Tree of Life]]? --[[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion]]

: The projects themselves are great, and the taxoboxes and element boxes are great. They just have drawbacks: but I've already said elsewhere that HTML tables make articles hard to edit; and moreover, floating the tables because forces a narrow column of text which makes the rendered article harder to read too. -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]]