TimelineTest

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax

Soviet Timeline Example

<timeline> # All measures are in pixels ImageSize = width:350 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,1) text:Vladimir~Ilyich~[[Lenin]] from:1922 till:1953 shift:($dx,1) text:[[Stalin|Josef Stalin]] from:1953 till:1964 shift:($dx,1) text:Nikita [[Khrushchev]] from:1964 till:1982 shift:($dx,1) text:Leonid [[Brezhnev]] from:1982 till:1984 shift:($dx,1) text:Yuri [[Andropov]] from:1984 till:1985 shift:($dx,1) text:[[Chernenko]] fontsize:XS from:1985 till:end shift:($dx,1) text:Mikhail~[[Gorbachev]] </timeline>

<timeline> All measures are in pixels ImageSize = width:350 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,1) text:Vladimir~Ilyich~Lenin from:1922 till:1953 shift:($dx,1) text:Josef Stalin from:1953 till:1964 shift:($dx,1) text:Nikita Khrushchev from:1964 till:1982 shift:($dx,1) text:Leonid Brezhnev from:1982 till:1984 shift:($dx,1) text:Yuri Andropov from:1984 till:1985 shift:($dx,1) text:Chernenko fontsize:XS from:1985 till:end shift:($dx,1) text:Mikhail~Gorbachev </timeline>

Line Example

<timeline> PlotArea = left:40 bottom:60 top:10 right:10

TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy

Period = from:1939 till:1945

ImageSize = width:800 height:600

LineData =

 layer:front                                                  # all lines in front of bars unless stated otherwise
 at:1939                            color:yellow              # perpendicular to time axis full length
 at:1940                            color:orange  layer:back  # perpendicular to time axis full length but behind bars
 at:1940  frompos:50 tillpos:105    color:green               # perpendicular to time axis, with specified start and stop points
 from:1942 till:1945 atpos:50       color:red                 # parallel to time axis
 points:(100,20)(170,105)           color:blue    width:3     # from one arbitrary absolute position to another, extra thick 

</timeline>

Template

<timeline>

ImageSize, determines the overall size of the time line.

PlotArea, determines the margins

Period, determines the time period that will be displayed in the chart

TimeAxis, the orientation (horizontal/vertical) of the time axis

PlotData

TextData


</timeline>