Greetings,
As part of the architecture cleanup of MediaWiki, the Graphoid graph service will soon stop rendering graphs server-side [1]. All rendering will take place in the client. This change primarily affects end-users who do not have or have disabled Javascript.
The change is in testing now, and will be appearing on mediawiki.org soon. If you think this information is relevant to your community, please share with them that the deprecation will occur in the near future.
Thanks, happy editing to you.
1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124254
Keegan Peterzell, 11/05/20 23:24:
As part of the architecture cleanup of MediaWiki, the Graphoid graph service will soon stop rendering graphs server-side [1]. All rendering will take place in the client. This change primarily affects end-users who do not have or have disabled Javascript.
Is this the first time that we force users to enable JavaScript in order to see *content*? Will there be an exit strategy for the wikis, which may now want to convert all such graphs to static images in the articles? Are there scripts to automate the conversion?
Federico
FWIW, this decision was not taken lightly (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211881 for some of the history) and we are still hoping to re-enable server-side graph rendering in the future, but any such rendering would be with a totally new service ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249419), as maintaining the previous Graphoid service was untenable. All current graphs can be retrieved as PNGs from the REST API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/REST_API if wikis prefer to use static images instead. (Examine current page sources to see the API calls.)
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 5:09 PM Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Keegan Peterzell, 11/05/20 23:24:
As part of the architecture cleanup of MediaWiki, the Graphoid graph service will soon stop rendering graphs server-side [1]. All rendering
will
take place in the client. This change primarily affects end-users who do not have or have disabled Javascript.
Is this the first time that we force users to enable JavaScript in order to see *content*? Will there be an exit strategy for the wikis, which may now want to convert all such graphs to static images in the articles? Are there scripts to automate the conversion?
Federico
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