Template talk:Graphical timeline

message: Hi all, I know I've really stuffed it up but I was hoping someone might be able to help me, I have created :Template:Timeline Queensland Premiers which is based on Timeline Australian PM.  While I can put in the grunt work of inserting the data I have obviously not got the technical knowledge to know why it has not worked.  I have tried not to change any of the script other than the info. Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thanks, WikiTownsvillian 12:49, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks pretty good to me, to be honest. However, you're not using this template (), but M:easyTimeline — that would be a more appropriate place to seek help! I'd have a look myself but am sick of trying to interpret the easyTimeline syntax. Hope you get somewhere - if not, do see how you get on with this template (if you can bear entering the data again!) Verisimilus T 19:32, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New graphical timeline 

message: Can anyone tell me how to make this work with the lower numbered years at the top?  See Talk:John Vanbrugh. -- Ferma (talk) 19:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lower numbered years at the top? 

message: I have a problem with . The text at the bottom gets cut off by the box. I don't think the documentation explains how to fix this. --Tobias1984 (talk) 09:39, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Box cuts off text at the bottom 

message: I made two attempts to add bars today without success.  Subst isn't working.  Any ideas?P.S. I'm using 95 bars on User:Fama Clamosa/Sandbox. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 14:04, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to add more bars 

message: Is there any possibility to use correct minus signs (−) instead of hyphens (-) for negative numbers? — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 13:00, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Support: I second Mr. Ryazanov's suggestion. —DocWatson42 (talk) 05:56, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:   Most recent editors: Might one of you make the suggested correction? —DocWatson42 (talk) 01:30, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct typography? 

message: This template grossly and conspicuously violates WP:MOSMATH.
: These are minus signs:
:: 5 − 3
:: −42
: These are not minus signs, but hyphens:
:: 5 - 3
:: -42
This template uses hyphens where there should be minus signs. If it's used in an article everyone will think the article was written by someone who can't spell. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:40, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems the main problem is that this template creates labels using , which produces output in "plain-text" ASCII (perhaps to be reusable as numbers in other templates), hence the disgusting look in Unicode environment with proportional fonts. I suspect that wrapping the output in  should solve the problem, but the current code is too huge and too brainfuck-like to be understood... :–( So the only hope is to summon somebody who participated in its creation (this apparently was ≥5 years ago) and maybe still remembers how it works. Or to rewrite everything in Lua in a more readable and maintainable form. — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 03:37, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  This template's typesetting is terrible 

message: Archived discussion at VPT: Dead wikilinks in graphical timeline templates (in Chrome, Opera and Safari).
The cause of the problem is that arguments to Template:Graphical timeline are put within  elements in the template, while templates that call this template, such as for example Template:Life timeline, put  elements (now removed from the Life timeline template) in those arguments, leading to invalid nesting. (The effect of this was hidden by HTML Tidy until we switched to RemexHTML on 5 July 2018.)
The problem is resolved by removing s from arguments to Template:Graphical timeline.
--Pipetricker (talk) 09:46, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead wikilinks in graphical timelines discussed at WP:Village pump (technical) 

message: This has never worked properly, since it was set up (and used in at least one article) in 2011.  At least for me, the dates display in an otherwise empty top section. I know nothing about templates, but I suspect the mistake is quite simple.  Can anyone help? Johnbod (talk) 00:00, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: . The specified width was far too large, so the boxes wrapped. — hike395 (talk) 09:12, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template:Chronological Chart for the historical periods of Afghanistan]] 

message: There were two threads about this back in '16, but just chiming in 4 years later to say it's still a bother that the template uses hyphens instead of proper unicode minus signs. I ignorantly tried updating a downstream template and came here after realizing it wasn't changing. Opencooper (talk) 05:08, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded again. —DocWatson42 (talk) 04:00, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  A relatively simple change now that the template is in Lua. — hike395 (talk) 09:53, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minus signs... again 

message: I propose there be a graphical timeline feature that allows you to collapse a timeline if you want it hidden. I'm already working on it right now. This could allow long, unwieldy timelines to be collapsed into a more manageable size. Benniboi01 (talk) 18:58, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: and  have been added to the Lua module. — hike395 (talk) 05:34, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for a new feature for this template 

message: User:Hike395, there seems to be a bug (?) with how margins are implemented, at least how :Template:Human timeline interacts with them. I noticed this at the article Cerutti Mastodon site (the text gets too close to the box, should be more like an infobox margin). — Goszei (talk)  20:09, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch! I implemented the margins backwards. Now fixed in the live template. — hike395 (talk) 04:21, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Margins in module implementation 

message: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Need_Template:Human_timeline_Help MarMi wiki (talk) 21:06, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that making the containers not overlap and/or introduce some structure/order would solve this problem (for all the links) (, ). MarMi wiki (talk) 16:20, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not clickable links (again) 

message: Could this module parse dates, not just numbers? — Guarapiranga ☎ 01:32, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates axis 

message: See for example the timeline in the infobox in Pleistocene. Below the heading Chronology, only a small bottom part of ↓Holocene is visible.  --Lambiam 10:22, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  When embedded, top part of chronology chart is cut of