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:it's always tricky to select a "round" number to serve as top y. i think anywhere between 1 and 1.5 (or 10 and 15, or 100 and 150 etc.) will use 1.5. the problem here is not just finding the appropriate top value, but also selecting the other y legends: for instance, if we would have selected 13 (or 13 million, for that matter), marking all the values of 1,2,3...12,13 would create too many marks, but nothing else seems very appropriate.
:i guess i could teach the module to accept the y-legend values manually, so the editor will be able to force values when the current logic of the module does not produce good results, but this won't happen before the end of the week. peace - [[User:קיפודנחש|קיפודנחש (aka kipod)]] ([[User talk:קיפודנחש|talk]]) 12:52, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
::Yeah, I know - I've done a fair few PHP routines to generate charts from SQL databases dynamically on websites I maintain (using things like [http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/ flashchart]). It's a pig to code for when the ranges can be anything from 1 to a zillion without getting odd division markers. No big thing, it's ok as it is really, and that's a prototype with imaginary data - so the final thing might use luckier numbers when I plug them in.
::I'm also interested in the question above about thumbnailing. The charts are too big to include in full on the article page, so there'll be a separate chart page. At the moment I'm even thinking I might need to use an image screenshot in the article to link to the page with the full chart, which is OK here, because the data isn't likely to change - but not an ideal way of doing it if the data is regularly updated, because you'd need to update a new thumbnail image each time too. Thanks for the quick reply. <span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;color:#000;">[[User:Begoon|<span style="color:#0645AD;">Begoon</span>]] [[User talk:Begoon|<span style="color:gray;"><sup>talk</sup></span>]]</span> 13:27, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
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