User:CIA391/Timeline

Put generic start line here (this is using a layout that Memory alpha uses here

Phase 1: Ideas
Go over ideas on what I want for this rehaul.

Phase 2: Prep
Prep existing pages (source checked and so on)

Check these timelines for ref and updating our one better
 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnWoH0BArowDdGdQVUtRa3B0X2ZmQzBOZWl3TlZQVUE&usp=sharing
 * https://wiki.halo.fr/Chronologie

Phase 3: Decades and other

 * Create Decade and Century Pages
 * Continue work on User:CIA391/Distant past.

Phase 4: Templates
Continue work on the templates below and push.

Phase 5: Safety Check
Once templates have been pushed. Make sure pages are sound and flow well.

Stuff to work on
1. Finish fixing up the current timeline. 2. Do work on making the info/nav/box work better. 3. Create decade and century pages. 4. Maybe create millennium pages. 5. Make main hub easy to understand plus have interesting stuff to draw the readers attention.

Timeline design

 * User:Dab1001/Timeline_of_canonical_media
 * User:Dab1001/Timeline2
 * User:TheEld

Decades

 * User:CIA391/2500s: This is a wip of 1 possible decade layout. Version 0.1

Years/Decades infobox

 * Current
 * Hopeful design
 * Timeline box work

Fixes needed before template can be used

 * Add a overwrite clause to avoid the following issues.
 * Real world years
 * 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
 * Redirects = Fix remove the ones that are useless. Then add a "ignore caveat".
 * 7, 360, 343, 4096
 * Fix 1 to 9 adding a "0s" to the years and decades.
 * Lower decades to 1 next and 1 previous.
 * Automate decades
 * Add the ability to connect to the first BCE year automatically.

Work to get the loop working as intended

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Loops##while

Logic
 * Start = 2470 (Page name)
 * Goal = 2473 (Next page)
 * Start = i
 * If i is not a link + 1 (loop)
 * If i is a link display

Likely need to use ifexist

Century/Millennium + Distant past infobox

 * Timenav current.

Timeline versions
We can go three routes here. 1. Follow the text version we have here 2. We go a wide spanning one that Memory Alpha has. 3. We do both! :D