! In T334940#9509039, @Ita140188 wrote:
I never said it should be quick, nor that it is a trivial matter. However, this is a core functionality that has been broken for a year. After a year we have zero solutions and still no end in sight. This ticket has not even been assigned to anyone, no one that leads this or has any responsibility for its success of failure. Since the WMF is a relatively large organization with plenty of funds, and also has at its disposal hundreds of skilled volunteers, it seems to me that this failure is due to either dysfunction or lack of interest in solving this, which are both frustrating for the people that worked on graphs over the years as well as the readers that don't have access to valuable content provided by graphs
A comment from a "normal" Wikipedia user. I've been waiting for this fix for I guess a year, regularly checking. There's a WIkipedia page on Covid (statistics) and I wanted to contribute, but can't due to this issue. The bug has thus been causing a lot of valuable data NOT to be added to Wikipedia, and continues to cause this. Once in a while I see Wikipedia asking for money / donations. If this is a complex problem, then it needs money to solve. It's about core functionality (statistics). Wikipedia is an encyclopedia!!! What is an encyclopedia without statistics and graphs?! I would like to suggest to run a fundraiser specifically for this so people can be paid to fix this. I'd happily donate. Wikipedia can't complain that the graphs issue is not being fixed, if they don't even ask for donations to fix it.
