Category talk:Years

message: Whoever created most of the "XX century" categories included the wrong years in them, stating that (for example) "The 1st century is from 0 to 99." Obviously this is wrong and now many of the existing century and millennium categories need to be fixed, as do almost all year categories ending in 00, 01 or 99. I think I've fixed all of the AD century categories, but may have missed some. -Sean Curtin 04:26, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Centuries

message: I have an issue concerning the categorization of year-related pages in :Category:2004, :Category:2003, etc. Over the past few days, I've been changing the way pages are listed (sorted) in those categories. Could interested parties please check out the categories above and, say, :Category:2000 & :Category:2001, which I have not changed, and let me know which format (or which aspects of each format) they prefer? The differences, I think, will be obvious, but you can check out my recent contributions to see exactly what I've been doing. See also my remarks at User talk:D6#Better sorting for year categories and User:Docu's responses. What do you think? Please comment on my talk page or here, as I don't wish to unfairly flood Docu's talk page with comments he didn't ask for. Thanks. - dcljr 23:23, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: OBTW, I should point out that this is not a request for comment in the dispute-resolution sense. I don't have a problem with User:Docu, I just want to know what direction, if any, I should take my efforts on the year Category pages. - dcljr 23:45, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFC on my activities in year categories 

message: The following discussion took place at Village pump (policy). - dcljr 21:10, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion of year category pages 

message: The way it is now, each century from the 17th century BC to around the 6th century has a subcategory for each decade, with only 1 article in each decade subcategory.  For example, in the 12th Century category, you can click on 1160s BC, and there'll be an article entitled 1160s BC. Is this really neccesary?  Wouldn't it be better to just have a list of decade articles in each of these sparse early centuries?-LtNOWIS 03:40, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  I'm nominating a bunch of early-year categories for deletion on today's WP:CFD page. -- Beland 08:13, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Decade Subcategories?

message: Please help resolve the issue raised in Talk:Heisei#Future Japanese dates. `'mikka (t) 15:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Future Japanese dates

message: I have been working on an intuitive display of decade, century and millennia information. It will be presented to the International Technology, Education and Development Conference in Valencia (Spain) on 7-9 March. Here is the gist of it:
Today’s global world is experiencing the interaction between civilizations more than ever before. But the study of history and civilizations is still largely focused on one civilization at a time and does not encourage a time-synchronous view. This is obviously necessary for any in-depth study, but it narrows the viewing field by blanking out what happened in other parts of the world at the same time.
‘Civilizations of the World’ is a web-based application developed to overcome this limitation of histo¬rical study. It presents a time synchronous view of different civilizations that existed since 3000 B.C. It shows the events that occurred and the prominent people who lived different civilizations  on a common timeline. The user interface we designed is user friendly and organized in a way that all important information is typically just a ‘click’ away from the client’s location. The application is available on a portable media such as DVD and can be run effectively on any commonly used computer equipped with either Internet Explorer or Mozilla browser and at least 512 Mb of RAM.
The entire package (database, maintenance mode and runtime mode) is supplied as a stand-alone DVD and can thus be used without connection to the internet. By copying the DVD content to their computer users can personalize their copy of the Time Atlas by adding new entries, deleting unwanted entries and modifying entries to their requirements. Alternatively, the Time Atlas can be opened up for data entry by anyone. This will require installation of the Time Atlas and its maintenance facilities on the web. The authors intend to approach the Wikipedia team with a proposal to use the new Time Atlas as a display tool for Wikipedia’s vast amount of information.
The full short paper is available from http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/civilizationspaper.pdf for download. Please glance through it and see what it's worth. If there is enough support for the concept I'll try and get a group up to see it implemented.
Matthias Tomczak 12:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A new concept for the display of time-related Wikipedia information