Extension:Graph/Plans

This page is a place for WMF staff and volunteers to gather the information needed for the WMF to decide the role it will play in ensuring the needs the Graph Extension emerged to serve continue being met.

Decisions to be made
The Open questions listed below are meant to surface the information the WMF will need to make the following decisions:


 * 1) What needs will any proposed path forward need to meet?
 * 2) What role will the WMF play in ensuring these needs are met?

Open questions
In order to make the Decisions to be named above, we think we need to answer the list questions below. We anticipate this list evolving over time as new information emerges.


 * 1) Who are the people (e.g. WMF teams, volunteers, WikiProjects, etc.) that depended on the Graph Extension? In what way(s) had people been using the Graph Extension?
 * 2) What is no longer possible as a result of the Graph Extension being disabled? Asked another way: what capabilities did the Graph Extension provide for which you have not yet found a viable workaround?
 * 3) What did you notice yourself (and other people) using the Graph Extension to do that you hadn't been doing before?
 * 4) What – if anything – did the Graph Extension make it easier/more convenient to do? If you can, please describe what each "task" you used the Graph Extension for looked like before and after it existed.
 * 5) What workarounds have you developed and/or seen other volunteers develop in the time between now and when the Graph Extension was disabled?
 * 6) What tools (on- and off-wiki)/templates/gadgets/etc. are you currently using to create data visualizations for Wikipedia?
 * 7) Why do you think it is or is not strategically important for the Wikimedia Movement to offer on-wiki tools for storing, editing, and visualizing data?

Background
On April 19, 2023 it was identified that the Graph extension, which uses the older Vega 1 & Vega 2 libraries, had a number of security vulnerabilities.

In the interest of the security of the people who use Wikipedia, the Graph extension was disabled on all Wikimedia wiki's.