Dear Lazyweb, please build me a wiki timeline of everything

I feel the need for a graphical depiction of events from world history, so I can get an idea of context for events. I’d like it to be sideways scrolling, zoomable and clickable. Initial population could be done by scraping wikipedia for dates I guess, and then the two would work together.

I’m not asking much for something I’d only use once or twice a month, but I’d still like you to build it for me.

Posted via email from spinneyhead’s posterous

1 comment to Dear Lazyweb, please build me a wiki timeline of everything

Leave a Reply

 

 

 

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
http://www.spinneyhead.co.uk/archives/2012/05/31/dear-lazyweb-please-build-me-a-wiki-timeline-of-everything/
www.spinneyhead.co.uk
crawl=CC-MAIN-2013-20
71004
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:MG5C4RBDESBXRM6LDMCF4CWLQR6BBGSP
<urn:uuid:1d8fe638-53e7-4b7d-9cdd-21b07d45121a>
2013-05-25T10:17:37Z
94.102.152.226
sha1:6NSDUSWFG4MHSGE4GY7JVFPZSHMNFAHS
<urn:uuid:a3204683-10bf-4ebd-a836-e72244450d3e>
http://www.spinneyhead.co.uk/archives/2012/05/31/dear-lazyweb-please-build-me-a-wiki-timeline-of-everything/
response
<urn:uuid:784992f8-0a3d-4b39-b964-11a39f54146c>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-20
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Spring 2013
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf