Extension talk:Graph

Block limitations
It seems that the block now is being spreaded to all width of content of the page. Thus in current page state it also covers the space above infobox and thus infobox's links to uncollapse hooks and the link to twn are unclicable. --Base (talk) 15:58, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Map distortion
Why is every continent except Africa & South America all squashed in the map tool? All this political correctness is going too far—Kelvinsong (talk) 21:23, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

2015-05-14 Tech talk notes
-- SPage (WMF) (talk) 21:23, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Word cloud is coming, needs to be deployed.
 * A separate Graph namespace turned out not be useful, because you can't put template stuff in a strict JSON file. It's Better to make graphs as MediaWiki templates, where you can have headings and legends outside the  tag, and template expansion within it.
 * en:User:Milimetric/MinardNapoleon is a famous graph recreated using uwdata's lyra to generate the JSON for Vega graph description.
 * no standards for graph layout, we need lots of MediaWiki templates for standard graph types, Lua modules for typical transformations, etc.
 * Lots of API calls return JSON. Problem is we don't let Graph extension/Vega run arbitrary JavaScript transforms on-wiki. Meanwhile Lua modules on-wiki can do data transforms, but are not able to make API call (yet).
 * Slides from the talk are here

Bug?

 * Hello, as this function was originally deployed it allowed a certain level of visually appealing interactivity when hovering over items. This is still the case for me when I go directly to Extension:Graph/SampleGraph. However, it is no longer true when I use a graph anywhere else on-wiki. Specifically, in this week's Signpost the  trigger was working correctly when the story was being drafted, but broke sometime before publication. I have checked with some other editors and they report the same.

The interactivity is what makes the extension in the first place&mdash;static data can be represented only very slightly worse with images. Resident Mario (talk) 05:05, 17 May 2015 (UTC)