Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-28117441-20160616045217/@comment-5175866-20160617142439

This is one of the most commonly suggested ideas we would good. It's something we have thought about, but have decided not to do it at this time. One reason is technical reasons. I'm afraid it will take a lot more than limited JavaScript to produce a truly functional timeline (I myself have the same skillset as you, HTML-CSS but limited JS use). It is also difficult to create a timeline the kind of article space that is set here, and that is difficult to change. One day we will have the technical resources, and Wikia will likely have developed portability/semantics enough for us to be able to do this.

Second, its because we have not covered thousands of years that it would be harder for us to create a timeline. Since we are not at the point where we are considered "comprehensive" a timeline at this point would be severly lacking content interconnectivity (actual content to read and get by clicking the timeline).

I would be interested to hear your ideas, but this is something we have thought about many times over, and have been suggested many times. We would rather wait until we can do this really nicely than do it now and have it take all of our time and not be the best quality.