Maniphest T120489

Collaborative way to generate SVG/PNG graphs using Lua modules
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	• DannyH
	Dec 5 2015, 12:38 AM

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See also T66460: Dynamically generate files with Scribunto, which may overlap/duplicate.

Extension:EasyTimeline (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline) lacks some essential features and doesn't support complex text rendering capability needed for scripts other than Latin. Wikipedia community also created hand crafted family tree graphs, e.g. en:Template:Inglis family tree (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Inglis_family_tree), using HTML tables hack. Now that we have a proper programming language support on Wikipedia wikis, it would be nice if SVG/PNG graphs could be generated using Lua script or wikicode by community, something like mw:Extension:Inline SVG extension (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Inline_SVG_extension) but updated and ready to use, or adopting one of Lua bindings of Cairo graphic library. (http://cairographics.org/bindings/)

--ebrahimtalk 23:16, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

This card tracks a proposal from the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey

This proposal received 6 support votes, and was ranked #81 out of 107 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Miscellaneous#Collaborative_way_to_generate_SVG.2FPNG_graphs_using_Lua_modules

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• DannyH created this task.Dec 5 2015, 12:38 AM

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I trust you did consider https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/113759/ ?

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• DannyH moved this task from Wishlist 51-on to Wishlist 51-on on the Community-Wishlist-Survey-2015 board.Dec 15 2015, 8:59 PM

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• DannyH updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 6 2016, 12:27 AM

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Same as T66460#2933038:
I think we should reject this task, because Lua can already generate <graph>...</graph> chart -- that's what Template:Graph:Chart actually does, or, better yet, use one of the templates like Pie from row or Line chart to plot data directly from a dataset table on Commons.

I'm boldly going to decline this abandoned task as per last comment.
Feel free to reopen and add an active code project tag, if there are reasons to keep this task open.

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Bugreporter closed this task as a duplicate of T66460: Dynamically generate files with Scribunto.Apr 18 2023, 2:23 PM

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