I've developed a more automated template for population growth charts (intended for census data on geographical articles) at the Vietnamese Wikipedia. If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to port vi:Mô đun:Thời biểu dân số over to this wiki; just contact me. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 16:53, 31 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
- i gave it a cursory look. first of all - very nice! second - the Vietnamese version currently is limited to a single dataset, so i am not sure it's The Answer™ (although it maybe can be used to develop "The Answer"). However, one thing that the Vietnamese module linked above did right (and i went wrong), is actually using mw:Extension:Timeline (i used divs with position:absolute - quite a disaster). for me personally, timeline has one huge deficiency that tramps (almost) anything else: its RTL support sucks (thogh, maybe Lua can help even here? i'll have to ponder it a bit). i am not all that familiar with the "Timeline" syntax, but it may actually be better.
- So next mission is to develop a line-graph using the timeline syntax.
- peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 19:55, 31 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
- Hmmm. I was actually hoping that your next project would be developing a set of Lua modules to make the EasyTimeline extension obsolete. I've always found its output to be pretty awful (ugly rasterized image). --MZMcBride (talk) 02:05, 1 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
- Actually, Thời biểu dân số supports any arbitrary years (even BC), as seen at vi:Bản mẫu:Thời biểu dân số#Thành phố New York. I brought it up because it allows you to enter each data point as
| yyyy = nnnn, so editors don't have to learn a special syntax. But obviously you're thinking about broader charting needs, and I would welcome any effort to obsolete EasyTimeline, because its un-antialiased fonts are hideous. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 06:31, 2 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
- it's understood that it can support any year range,but it's still asingle data set. It can't show, for instance, life expectancy vs. Average weight, or crop size vs. Agriculture area, let alone three or four different variables. קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 12:39, 2 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
