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Wikipedia Scraping
Hi,
I'm a teacher. I use timelines a lot for both personal use and teaching.
Can Cascade display dates in BC - even back billions of years?
Can the code be entered to show images by default, rather than having to click?
Can the system support images from Wikipedia?
My goal is to be able to enter something like this: Early Mycenaean period 1750-1400 BC https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Mycenaean_World_en.png/330px-Mycenaean_World_en.png Palatial Bronze Age 1400-1200 BC Postpalatial Bronze Age 1200-1050 BC
Such a HUGE help if these things were possible.
Sincerely,
Acherates
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[ ] Dates in BC This is unlikely in cascade.page's current form, or at least, unlikely to happen soon. The problem is that everything gets converted to a standard date representation and calendar, which starts to lose its meaning for dates very long ago or very far into the future. "Recent" BC times might be doable (like more recent than 10,000BC) but I'd still need to investigate. Admittedly though my focus is more on dates +-1000 years from now
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[ ] Show images by default This is possible. Not yet sure what form it would take. Maybe indentation - if an event is indented it will not be expanded by default, if it is not indented it is expanded by default? Still thinking about it
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[ ] Images from other sources (e.g., Wikipedia) This is also possible.
I've had similar thoughts about sourcing information from wikipedia - it would be nice if you could enter a wikipedia url and a timeline could automatically be generated from the dates within the article. Alas I think such a feature is probably a ways off.
