https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58779

--- Comment #6 from Cyberpower678 <cybernet...@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #0)
> > > When trying to use the edit count feature on Wikimedia Commons (for 
> > > example,
> > > this URL for my account:
> > > http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.
> > > php?name=Peteforsyth&lang=commons&wiki=wikimedia
> > > ) one gets no meaningful results, but a page full of error messages, like
> > > this:
> > > 
> > > Notice: Undefined offset: 490 in /data/project/xtools/Graph.php on line 
> > > 189
> > > 
> > > (followed by identical statements about different offset and line 
> > > numbers).
> > > 
> > > This problem happened a few months ago, and was fixed; if I recall 
> > > correctly,
> > > it had something to do with a new namespace being added on Commons. Is it
> > > possible to update the edit count tool so that it's not so sensitive to 
> > > name
> > > space changes?
> > 
> > Unfortunately no.  Everytime a namespace is added, the edit counter will
> > break
> > because it is missing data for that namespace.  What's missing is usually a
> > color definition to assign the namespace to for graphing purposes.  I'll 
> > have
> > it fixed in just a few minutes.
> 
> Surely it could handle the situation more gracefully (e.g. make all
> non-specified namespaces white or if unspecified take a hash of the namespace
> and derrive the colour from that)

I could, but that would make the problem go unnoticed.  Also to have it set its
own color could cause it to make extremely similar colors.  Making the pi chart
harder to read.  I'd like to ensure the pi chart could be read by setting my
own colors and making sure that they are different from each other.  When the
edit counter was still on toolserver, error suppression was switched on,
suppressing all error messages.  Hardly anybody noticed any issues.  The edit
counter was really broken though.  So keeping error suppression off is the best
way to make sure things are fixed and programmed correctly.

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