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The examples shown are why pie charts are often not a good idea when categories are massively different in size. There are often better alternatives.

I've long wanted to use a pie chart but with lines to denote which slice is which, but the library used for the charts do not support this. A different chart is probably the way to go here. As to what chart that is, that's a ? for now.

Chlod triaged this task as Low priority.Nov 5 2025, 9:24 AM

I've long wanted to use a pie chart but with lines to denote which slice is which, but the library used for the charts do not support this. A different chart is probably the way to go here. As to what chart that is, that's a ? for now.

For the data illustrated in the examples, a bar chart would probably be best.

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The example "pie chart" in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Chart isn't very pie-like:

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What did you do to it?

@Bugreporter2 I did nothing. Not sure how this is my problem? This is a task for a Toolforge tool; it'd be great if you checked the task's projects beforehand.