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The editable timeline directory – Help create a new way to visualise Wikipedia!

June 29, 2015 Sean McBirnie Leave a comment
Timeline directory

We have laid the groundwork for the timeline directory, now we need your help to turn it into the amazing resource we know it can be, join us and help create a new and engaging way to explore the ‘Sum of all Human knowledge’. We love Wikipedia and Wikidata, and think they are without doubt the very best places on […]

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Presenting the Timeline Directory and Auto-Arrange

February 11, 2015 Sean McBirnie Leave a comment

With these two major features we are taking a huge step towards the final vision of creating a new resource that will allow all of history to be explored, compared, and analysed in an engaging and interactive environment. There is still work to be done, but these features are a huge milestone for the project. We believe we are on […]

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New upcoming feature: Embedding Timelines

April 23, 2014 Sean McBirnie Leave a comment
Embedding Timelines

Great News! We’ve added embedding timelines to the next release, and it’s going to be FREE!  Our goal with this feature is to provide a resource that will allow you to easily add an extra level of engagement to your content. Embedded timelines will display in a read-only mode and the layout has been altered so the timelines will display […]

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Priority Display: A step towards The Timeline for all of History

April 14, 2014 Sean McBirnie Leave a comment
Priority Display

The next major feature for Histropedia is on its way, Priority Display will make a huge difference to the site and bring us a step closer to the timeline of everything.   What does Priority Display do? Priority Display will limit the number of events you see on the screen at one time by only showing the most important events […]

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The Amazing Power of Wikidata

April 4, 2014 Sean McBirnie 5 comments

We have recently switched Histropedia’s primary source for event dates from Wikipedia to Wikidata. We are still using Wikipedia as a date source and all the events remain linked to a Wikipedia article, but now whenever possible we are trying to use dates from Wikidata. This is a major improvement for us because Wikidata stores dates in a very different […]

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New Feature – Zooming in Further

April 2, 2014 Sean McBirnie Leave a comment

We are excited to announce some major changes to the event editing system and an increase in the available zoom levels. The new editing options allow events to be pinned to the exact dates they occurred and the extra zoom levels let you view days and months on the timeline. These changes drastically increase the number of timelines we can […]

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Histropedia uses data from Wikipedia and Wikidata to automatically generate interactive timelines with events linked to Wikipedia articles. Combine timelines and events to create your own custom timeline and start playing lego with history!

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