Sources & licensing

The Human Storyline publishes two kinds of material, with different sources and licenses.

Hand-written anchors

Hooks and summaries on anchor entries are original wording written for this project. They are not copied from Wikipedia or other sources. Each anchor’s “Learn more” panel lists the sources used, typically a Wikipedia article for orientation plus at least one non-Wikipedia source.

Auto-fill (Wikidata)

Auto-fill items use facts from Wikidata, which are dedicated to the public domain under the CC0 1.0 dedication: name, dates, region, theme, a one-line Wikidata description, and links. This site does not ship Wikipedia article text. Where a Wikipedia page exists, we link out to it; Wikipedia content is owned by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA on Wikipedia itself.

Images

This site does not currently ship photographs or other media. If images are added later, they will be limited to public-domain or Creative Commons works, with credit.

Software

The timeline is a static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript site. Third-party names (Wikidata, Wikipedia, and any sites we link to) remain the marks of their owners.