"The EasyTimeline feature produces an embedded image from wikitext. The image can be a one-dimensional diagram (horizontally or vertically), or a two-dimensional one. As the saying goes: a picture is worth a thousand words. This is certainly true for graphical timelines. A detailed listing of events and dates in tabular form may offer the reader a lot of specifics, but may fail to provide an overview, a grand perspective.

EasyTimeline is a feature of Wikipedia (for an overview of all charts prepared with it on all wikipedias see EasyTimeline Index) and you can activate it on other MediaWiki installations (see EasyTimeline activation). You can also install it on your machine or play with it at test.wikipedia.org. Syntax description at Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax."

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