Fabrice,

Dan is right – there's no real use case for anchors right now and I want to push back on this request. Right now you can deeplink to a whole dashboard, a dashboard tab and an individual graph. That gives you all you need to make the data discoverable and citable from a wiki page. It's still doesn't allow you to discover all graphs available on a Limn instance or to generate a list of all available dashboards for each project,  but this probably require a different approach (see the separate thread on EE/analytics on dashboard generation).

It does take 5 minutes to create a dashboard including the same graph across all projects, and I can show you how this is done.

Dario

On Sep 20, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org> wrote:


We will continue to use the direct links for now, until anchors are possible.


Fabrice, I don't think direct anchors to graphs are a feature we've heard requested until now.  You should talk to Diederik so we can find out how best to serve that.  I would think a page that lists all the graphs for each tab would be a possible solution that *has* been requested and we are planning on doing.

 
Out of curiosity, how hard would it be for me to create a special page that shows the same daily notifications graph from the English, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Spanish Wikipedias, for comparison purposes?

For example:


http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/ptwiki_echo_category_perc 

Is this something that could be done by embedding each of these graphs in a wiki or HTML page? Could I do this myself with just a few lines of code? or would this require someone with more technical expertise?


We are working on embedding graphs into MediaWiki, and it is possible to embed them into an HTML page.  If you'd like to use the current limn servers, what you're asking is as simple as making a new dashboard.  And that's pretty easy assuming you already have the graphs.  A dashboard comparing the two graphs you listed above would look like this:

 {
    "id": "comparison",
    "headline": "Comparisons Across Projects",
    "subhead": "Wikimedia",
    "tabs": [
        {
            "name": "Echo",
            "graph_ids": [
                "frwiki_echo_category_perc",
                "ptwiki_echo_category_perc"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Save that json into a file called comparison.json and push it to the repository that serves your limn graphs.  Then you have to pull from the server to get the updates.  That definitely requires technical expertise, but maybe it'll start the conversation on building a UI around this.  Actually, doing the above in a UI seems pretty easy :)
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