A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events

Name: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events
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Author: lortex

by lortex·Jul 17, 2026·16 points·5 comments

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4M Wikipedia events on one zoomable timeline — perfect for losing an afternoon.

Strengths

•PageRank scoring surfaces historically significant events over noise.
•Kotlin Multiplatform + Compose UI is a technically interesting stack choice.

Weaknesses

•No filtering by region or culture risks Western-centric historical bias.
•Lacks export or embedding options for educators or bloggers.

Post Description

I'm building a journal app in Kotlin Multiplatform and for this purpose I have created a zoomable timeline interface.

This is a side-project where I reuse the timeline interface to display 4 million events imported from Wikipedia / Wikidata, scored using PageRank. There is more information on the about page.

If you're interested in the stack: I use Kotlin Multiplatform extensively, with Compose Multiplatform for the UI, communicates with the backend using Kotlinx-RPC and behind the hood a simple Postgres database on a Hetzner machine.