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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Graph Extension
And Tim has already done some amazing work getting OWID to function within
a mediawiki install. One can see examples of these graphs here

https://www.mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:OWID#How_to_use

All about 3,000 graphs can be seen here

https://owidm.wmcloud.org/

James

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 7:49?PM Tim Moody <tim@timmoody.com> wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Yesterday it was announced that the Graph extension has been disabled due
> to security vulnerabilities. Having the ability to visualize data is a
> powerful tool in presenting information within a wikipedia page, so it is
> great to have such an extension.
>
> But this could be the moment to reach out to Our World in Data (
> https://ourworldindata.org/), who have an even better set of data
> visualization tools, based on similar libraries, that are actively
> maintained by a strong community. Perhaps there is an opportunity for
> collaboration. This will not be a short term solution, as forging OWID
> software into an extension will take some time and backwards compatibility
> is essential. But in the medium to long term it will result in better tools
> and more compelling wiki pages.
>
> I hope the community and WMF will support such an approach.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim Moody
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James Heilman
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