Wikipedia:Timeline

Main categories: Category:Timelines, part of Category:Chronology

Timelines describe the events that occurred before another event, leading up to it, causing it, and also those that occurred right afterward that were attributable to it.

Guidelines

Main article: Wikipedia:Timeline standards

For help with embedding EasyTimeline timelines in Wikipedia, see mw:Extension:EasyTimeline/syntax.

WikiProject Timeline Tracer is making an effort, as of January 2008, to seek out and standardize timeline and chronological references.

See also the Featured list criteria and Wikipedia:Lists as style guides, and relevant Featured lists such as Timeline of chemistry and Narnian timeline as examples.

Graphical timelines

Category:Graphical timelines
- Uploaded images of timelines
- {{Include timeline}}, an easy way of including editable template-based horizontal or vertical graphical timelines.
- m:EasyTimeline, editable code-based timelines using Erik Zachte's extension for MediaWiki, <timeline>