Template talk:Timeline Tour de France Winners

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So... why can't we update it? --Golbez 07:03, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC) better now!

Contents 1 Reverse chronology 2 Overlapping text 3 Image 4 Another solution is needed

[edit] Reverse chronology

In order to suit the chronological order in the "History" section of the Tour de France article, this template should more appropriately start with 1903 at the top. Any idea how to do this? Poulsen 09:03, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overlapping text

I've left a note for the Timeline extension author at User talk:Erik Zachte/EasyTimeline#Tour de France again. --Dhartung | Talk 20:57, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Erik has replied that a problem with recoding for unicode has delayed reprocessing. The old generated images exist, which is why they look correct, and he suggests reverting and putting a note in the article that an update is delayed. I will revert to the last working image, and update the article caption accordingly. --Dhartung | Talk 06:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Once the delay is over, I propose to change the Dutch color to orange (RGB{1,0.5,0}). Orange is the Dutch national color, and it would help distinguish between Dutch and Irish in the timeline. --Pie.er 15:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image

Ive added the image Image:Tour de france floyd landis.PNG as a rough way of updating the timeline. if he is disqualified it can be changed to Image:Tour de france oscar.PNG --Astrokey44 12:57, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another solution is needed

It seems that this software problem is not going to be resolved. Another way of graphically representing the winners should be found. --216.75.93.110 15:30, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I tried something, see the bottom of my userpage. It is identical to the current graph, only Tour number has been removed (that was causing all the problems), and the order was reversed to put 1903 at the top (as Poulsen requested). Advantage: it can immediately be used, looks nice, and is easy to update. What do you all think, put it here? --Pie.er 13:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

The bug only relates to internal links in texts and does not occur on texts where the link is up front. If you can live with putting ranks at the end that will do. Someday I will fix the bug but I'm seriously behind on promises. The bug is appeared when someone switched EasyTimeline to a proportional unicode font. Blue links are written into the png file in a separate step. Calculcations where to position the texts are still based on the original non-proportional font. Erik Zachte 19:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

 OK
 from:1903 till:1904 text:"[[Maurice Garin]] 1st" color:France
 from:1904 till:1905 text:"[[Henri Cornet]] 2nd" color:France
 ERROR
 from:1905 till:1906 text:"3rd [[Louis Trousselier]]" color:France
 from:1906 till:1907 text:"4th [[René Polthier]]" color:France

OK. I replaced the old version with the new version (1903 on top, 2006 tour added), but without the Tour number. I found it very hard to read that way, for example "Lucien Petit-Breton 2 6th" is not clear... When the link-bug has been fixed, we can put the numbers back again. --Pie.er 11:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)