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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Graph Extension
I'm confident that the posters in this thread are already aware of this,
but maybe not all people who read along. The announcement of this disabling
by Seddon included a link to this ticket in case people want to follow
along and be updated: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940

Best,
Lodewijk

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 4:46?AM Galder Gonzalez LarraƱaga <
galder158@hotmail.com> wrote:

> The Basque Wikimedians User Group is working in the deployment of OWID and
> the security review is pending: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324989.
> As always, we have invested time and money on this, but it seems stalled in
> the Foundation side.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Tim Moody <tim@timmoody.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 19, 2023 12:48 PM
> *To:* wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Graph Extension
>
> 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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