diff --git a/config/plugins/visualizations/charts/config/charts.xml b/config/plugins/visualizations/charts/config/charts.xml
index caae65f8a12..c3b2636dd83 100644
--- a/config/plugins/visualizations/charts/config/charts.xml
+++ b/config/plugins/visualizations/charts/config/charts.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE visualization SYSTEM "../../visualization.dtd">
-<visualization name="Charts">
+<visualization name="Charts" regular="True">
+    <description>Renders a regular bar diagram using NVD3 hosted at http://www.nvd3.org.</description>
     <data_sources>
         <data_source>
             <model_class>HistoryDatasetAssociation</model_class>
diff --git a/config/plugins/visualizations/scatterplot/config/scatterplot.xml b/config/plugins/visualizations/scatterplot/config/scatterplot.xml
index d2649185929..408ba198c03 100644
--- a/config/plugins/visualizations/scatterplot/config/scatterplot.xml
+++ b/config/plugins/visualizations/scatterplot/config/scatterplot.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE visualization SYSTEM "../../visualization.dtd">
-<visualization name="Scatterplot">
+<visualization name="Scatterplot" regular="True">
+    <description>Creates a 2D-scatterplot from tabular datapoints</description>
     <data_sources>
         <data_source>
             <model_class>HistoryDatasetAssociation</model_class>
@@ -13,4 +14,4 @@
         <param type="dataset" var_name_in_template="hda" required="true">dataset_id</param>
     </params>
     <entry_point entry_point_type="mako">scatterplot.mako</entry_point>
-</visualization>
+</visualization>
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