NUKnightLab / NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3
uncertainty marker
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Description
It would be very interesting if I could add a marker to a date to specify that there is uncertainty about its accuracy.
For example: "Rome fell about 520 AC". I would do something like this:
{
"start_date": { "year": "520" },
"text": { "headline": "Rome falls" },
"uncertain": "true"
},
to get this in my timeline: "about 520 AC"
Or more precisely:
{
"start_date": { "year": "510" },
"end_date": { "year": "530" },
"text": { "headline": "Rome falls" },
"uncertain": "true"
},
to get this in my timeline: "about 510 AC to 530 AC"
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating TimelineJS3's date parsing and timeline label-rendering entry points; the issue does not name files or tests. Use the two uncertainty examples as acceptance criteria: support an uncertainty marker and display the requested “about” wording for single dates and ranges.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100