That's the problem of letting amateurs run the whole thing.ericbarbour wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 3:11 amIt's been a YEAR now. And it appears hell will freeze solidly over before they do anything. Meanwhile the Solar power in Australia article has two prominent dead charts:Bbb23sucks wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 1:57 amNow they're just killing it permanently with the vague suggestion that they'll implement something else.. "eventually".
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Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots
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Re: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots
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Re: Solid evidence of Wikipedia's decline - Graphs have been broken for a year!
Can confirm, still no fix so far.ylevental wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 1:19 pmI don't think about Wikipedia much anymore, but found this interesting
Graphs were removed due to security issues in April 2023 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940
The last update was in April 2024 - still no fix... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Plans
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Re: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots
a quick peek at Template:Graphs disabled shows that only one mainspace page is displaying the template. maybe they managed to implement charts as a replacement. the Phabricator page is very quiet lately. 
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Re: Solid evidence of Wikipedia's decline - Graphs have been broken for a year!
Update: New graph extension available in beta, although the time it takes to fix the graphs is still unusually long though.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensio ... ct/Updates
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Re: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots
Okay, let's check Solar power in Australia again.............nope, still busted
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Re: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots
Two threads about the same thing merged to here.
I poked around a bit for examples of their switch to Apache eCharts. Damned if I can find any evidence it's being used on live WP or Commons pages today. Lots of talktalktalk, not much fixing.
This is how MediaWiki was always "developed" in the past: in a thrashing, semi-competent, but little-discussed manner outside their inner circles. With a weird overlay of paranoia and secrecy. Other major open-source developers (FSF, Linux Foundation, Mozilla etc.) have their problems but MediaWiki makes them look STABLE by comparison.
The primary developer behind this Charts plug-in is WMF employee Roan Kattouw. He's been working on MediaWiki for seventeen years. And I'm really not sure he's "improving" anything. Feel free to disprove my statement.
I poked around a bit for examples of their switch to Apache eCharts. Damned if I can find any evidence it's being used on live WP or Commons pages today. Lots of talktalktalk, not much fixing.
This is how MediaWiki was always "developed" in the past: in a thrashing, semi-competent, but little-discussed manner outside their inner circles. With a weird overlay of paranoia and secrecy. Other major open-source developers (FSF, Linux Foundation, Mozilla etc.) have their problems but MediaWiki makes them look STABLE by comparison.
The primary developer behind this Charts plug-in is WMF employee Roan Kattouw. He's been working on MediaWiki for seventeen years. And I'm really not sure he's "improving" anything. Feel free to disprove my statement.