Last modified: 2008-12-10 11:43:25 UTC
The timeline images are either generated without text (only graphs, no legends, no descriptions...) or the image is not generated at all. Take first example timeline on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline original: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/timeline/d12a83ed39e720e3d4eb41241afdef3d.png slight change [shift:($dx,-12) to shift:($dx,-11)] - no text: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/timeline/785bb748606c385fec46d0d16b032390.png another slight change [some random playing with numbers] - no image at all http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/timeline/c074568e9acc4b0d6f652a2ac2fbd648.png Sometimes besides nonexistent image HTML source also contains only empty <map> tag without any <area> tags.
Example of what I've got when I was tweaking some timeline on w:cs: <p><map name="a6b0b5ecfd5e5b326f57f059bcac5a4e" id="a6b0b5ecfd5e5b326f57f059bcac5a4e"></map><img usemap="#a6b0b5ecfd5e5b326f57f059bcac5a4e" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/cs/timeline/a6b0b5ecfd5e5b326f57f059bcac5a4e.png" /></p>
See also following edit: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pazifische_Hurrikansaison_2008&diff=next&oldid=52045170 (see both versions before and after the edit, near the end of the article)
*** Bug 16131 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
See bug 16131: missing FreeSans font: apt-get install ttf-freefont should work. :-)
Changing product to Wikimedia and adding shell keyword per above.
Installed the FreeSans font using "dsh -w srv43,srv44,srv45,srv46,srv47 apt-get install ttf-freefont", can't notice any improvement
More diffs, in case they're useful, to [[w:Template:Trivia progress]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Trivia_progress&oldid=246786064 This revision] works fine, but [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Trivia_progress&oldid=247664188 this one] doesn't. The only [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ATrivia_progress&diff=247664188&oldid=246786064 difference] between the two is a single number that's been changed.
Same story here: this is entirely based on an existing timeline image, but simply isn't generated well, i.e. no text either http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambt_Delden&oldid=14590784 This is really a severe bug, as it simply breaks a *lot* of content on the different Wikipedia's
Ugh, our setup seems to be pretty broken here... 1) Ploticus isn't installed on a lot of newer machines. It has perhaps slipped out of the automated package installs. 2) Our config is setting the GD font path (GDFONTPATH env var) to... a directory which doesn't exist. So 1) is causing no output frequently, and 2) means that most/all of the renders that do happen won't have fonts? Investigating the situation further...
*** Bug 16585 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ok: 1) Ploticus was in fact installed, but with a different path and executable name. :P Now using the correct path for the server as detected at runtime. 2) Have created the font dir, copied in a bunch of fonts which didn't help, and finally copied in FreeSans.ttf which EasyTimeline is hardcoded to use. New timelines appear to render correctly. Old ones will be re-rendered, and we're currently working out issues with fully expiring the old renderings.
I just wanted to say that I cannot tell you how happy I am that you have fixed this bug. Thanks Brion!!!!
