4d ago

WikiTimeline: Transform Wikipedia articles into interactive timelines where you can compare historical figures/events and discover surprising connections.

wiki-timeline.com WikiTimeline - Interactive Historical Timeline Generator

Transform Wikipedia articles into beautiful, interactive timelines. Compare historical events and explore history in a visual way.

Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org

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4d ago

WikiTimeline: Transform Wikipedia articles into interactive timelines where you can compare historical figures/events and discover surprising connections.

wiki-timeline.com

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Opensource @programming.dev

Cat @ponder.cat

4d ago

WikiTimeline: Transform Wikipedia articles into interactive timelines where you can compare historical figures/events and discover surprising connections.

wiki-timeline.com

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If anyone’s interested in adding similar functionality to their own MediaWiki installation, you can use the ModernTimeline and SemanticMW extensions without the need for an AI to parse the pages for dates.
- I was gonna say, really? AI to parse a timeline? Overkill

This might potentially be a worthwhile submission for the internet is beautiful comm :)
Just checked and the comm on .ee seems to be the only one really active

Neat, shame it doesn't work if you feed it a category link though.

Why read an actual article written by humans when you can turn it into more generative AI garbage instead? 🙄
- I mean I also hate generative ai, but the answer is because you can reformat it into a new potentially more useful interface for a given usecase 😅
  An article and an interactive timeline are different things, and having access to both is neat.
  I'll probably stick to articles, at least in part because that works much better on mobile, but it's still nice to get a visualized timeline you can move through, one key event at a time

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