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WikiTimeline: Transform Wikipedia articles into interactive timelines where you can compare historical figures/events and discover surprising connections. (wiki-timeline.com)
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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Wow that's cool. Has anyone made a mega timeline off all Wikipedia? That would be a cool project

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

I remember manually doing that with the covid article, was interesting seeing how they described it early on

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

It seems pretty easy to break, unfortunately.

Or it just time outs on longer articles.

[–] afronaut@lemmy.cafe 1 points 4 months ago

Pretty cool. I searched ‘Samson’ to try it out.