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Render chart title as wikitext
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The chart title should be treated as "real" wiki text so that bold, italic and links are possible.

See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:GhostInTheMachine/Test.chart

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This is likeky not only chart titles, but any other text included the chart as well, such as labels and legends.

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egardner changed the subtype of this task from "Bug Report" to "Feature Request".Sep 10 2025, 6:01 PM

Treating this as a new feature request.

Based on the examples at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Chart, Wikitext titles can be provided as argument to the parser function used to add a chart to a page, but embedding wikitext in chart JSON is not currently supported.

{{image frame
|content={{#chart:Example.Line.chart}} [[commons:Data:Chart Example Data.tab|'''Raw data''']]
|width = 340
|caption = This is an example of a line chart.
}}