This card tracks a proposal that's currently part of the Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey
The Wishlist Survey voting phase lasts until Dec 14th. After the voting has concluded, the top proposals will form the backlog for the Community Tech team to investigate and address.
See also {T66460}, which may overlap/duplicate.
**Proposal**:
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