Old Era on Wikipedia

Old Era on Wikipedia插件简介

Old Era on Wikipedia插件描述

This extension converts BC/BCE dates into Old Era dates. Old Era is 10,000 years befe Christ (from 10,000 BC to 1 BC) that are numbered in chronological der. 

This idea is not new. You may have heard about Holocene Calendar  a calendar refm proposal made in 1993 by Cesare Emiliani. Old Era can be viewed as the first 10,000 years of that calendar. 

There was another calendar refm proposal in 1963 by E. R. Hope. He basically proposed an era identical to the Old Era differing from it only by name. He called his one the Anteri Epoch. 

I came up with the idea of the Old Era befe I learned about the 1963 proposal,  I decided to keep the name Old Era, because it sounds simpler.

It’s imptant to note that this project is not a calendar refm proposal. I don’t propose an official change of the calendar. I just use the Old Era. And I’ve been using it f years. Why? Because I like learning histy  I like the way histy feels when it’s presented with a timeline that doesn’t number years backwards. 

I recommend you to try it too. When using this extension set a goal of becoming comftable with Old Era dates in a day  two. Being comftable means you should be able to underst year numbers without translating them back to Christian dates. To achieve this you need to learn by heart a few OE dates of main histical events. 

This is how this extension wks. 
I create instructions f each Wikipedia page,  save them on the server. Instructions look like a list of BC dates  their positions on the page. When you visit a page on Wikipedia, the extension requests those instructions from the server  uses them to translate the dates on the page. 

This means that not all pages can be translated by this extension, but only the ones f which instructions have been created. Currently there are instructions f only a few hundred Wikipedia articles. But soon there will be thouss as I continue to upload new instructions to the server regularly. Later I plan to let other users create instructions too. So hopefully translating all articles on Wikipedia won’t take too long. 

The number  articles on Wikipedia that contain dates BC is a tiny fraction of the total number of articles. I have currently identified about 56,000 of them. However this number also includes irrelevant articles in which "BC" may st f British Columbia, baseball club, bowl championship, etc. 

Also, there are a lot of articles that are not really about histy, but just happen to mention a BC date. Take f example an article about hippopotamus. Of course, such articles should also be translated eventually, but they can wait.

Based on the number of ancient civilisations, numbers of ancient rulers, wars, etc., Id say there are about 10,000 to 20,000 articles with BC dates that are truly about histy  should be translated as soon as possible. 

Also note that the vast majity of articles contain only a few BC dates  shouldnt take too long to translate.
                                

Old Era on Wikipedia插件离线安装方法

1.首先用户点击谷歌浏览器右上角的自定义及控制按钮，在下拉框中选择设置。

2.在打开的谷歌浏览器的扩展管理器最左侧选择扩展程序或直接输入：chrome://extensions/

3.找到自己已经下载好的Chrome离线安装文件xxx.crx，然后将其从资源管理器中拖动到Chrome的扩展管理界面中，这时候用户会发现在扩展管理器的中央部分中会多出一个”拖动以安装“的插件按钮。

4.下载 Old Era on WikipediaChrome插件v4.0.1版本到本地。

5.勾选开发者模式，点击加载已解压的扩展程序，将文件夹选择即可安装插件。

注意：最新版本的chrome浏览器直接拖放安装时会出现“程序包无效CRX-HEADER-INVALID”的报错信息，参照这篇文章即可解决