Diena - Zoomable timeline of 4 million Wikipedia events
Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events
Diena transforms the vast expanse of human history into an interactive, zoomable timeline featuring 4 million events sourced from Wikipedia. This innovative tool allows users to seamlessly navigate through centuries, exploring connections between historical moments with unprecedented clarity. Whether you are a student, researcher, or history enthusiast, Diena offers a dynamic way to visualize the 'timeline of everything.' By leveraging modern web technologies, it turns static data into an engaging exploration of global events, making complex historical narratives accessible and intuitive for everyone.
Diena brings the entire timeline of everything to life, letting you zoom through 4 million Wikipedia events to discover the hidden connections of history.
- maxlin
An arbitrary data error I found is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekadefari is shown on the year 760251. That number is obviously wrong, it instead appears to be the postcode of the place.
- ks2048
You need some visual feedback that it's loading. I see a blank screen for 30 seconds.
- keynha
This is really nicely done, the log zoom makes 4M events feel navigable instead of like a wall. How are you serving a viewport at that scale: precomputed levels of detail, or a query against the raw events on each pan and zoom?
- darkstarsys
See also my log-scale timeline of the universe — hand-curated rather than a giant import, and I hope also a bit nicer/simpler UI: https://deep-timeline.org
- welcome_dragon
I think you need to check these. I saw one item (a bank maybe?) that was started on "20141221" or something. Didn't get parsed so it is treated as the year 20241221, not 2024.
So many examples of this right off the bat. This needs some serious work/testing.
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