John, This was indeed a tricky one :o)
The problem is caused by the rule on lines 1602-1604 of load.php (I don't know the internals of Mediawiki, but I suppose this PHP script is generating a CSS file): .mw-hide-empty-elt .mw-parser-output:not(.mw-show-empty-elt) .mw-empty-elt { display:none } I see two ways to fix the problem: * First solution: Your graph is in a table with the CSS class "graph". The parent element of this class is a div with class="mw-parser-output". If you can modify the class attribute of this div for "mw-parser-output mw-show-empty-elt" that will solve your issue. * Second solution: Just before the table element of the graph, there is a style element containing the CSS rules for the graph extension. If you can edit this element, you can add the following rule: table.graph .mw-empty-elt { display: block !important; } You could also try removing the "mw-hide-empty-elt" class from the page body, but I cannot be sure that this wouldn't have side effects on other Mediawiki features. Cheers, Eric