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Lua scripting
Support for Lua as a scripting language for MediaWiki end-users
Group:
Platform
Start:
2011-08
End:
2013-04
Team members:
Brad Jorsch (anomie)
Lead:
Tim Starling
Lua
is supported as a scripting language in all Wikimedia Foundation sites (since March 2013), via the
Scribunto
extension. Lua modules are maintained in the Module: namespace; you can see
recent changes to Lua modules in English Wikipedia
, for example. See also
the tutorial
and the
reference manual
Rationale
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Templates and
ParserFunctions
were introduced to allow end users of MediaWiki to replicate content easily and build tools using basic logic, effectively turning wikitext into a limited programming language.
However, complex templates have caused performance issues and bottlenecks.
This project aims to make it possible for MediaWiki end-users to use a proper
scripting language
that will be more powerful and efficient than ad-hoc ParserFunctions-based logic.
See also
Scripting
Extension:Scribunto
The example of Lua's use in World of Warcraft (WoW) is promising; even novices without any programming experience were able to make large changes to their graphical experiences by quickly learning some Lua.
Open tasks
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Product tasks
Where are the lists of templates that need to be converted? Help wikis gather those lists, and link to them on this page. For instance,
English Wikipedia lists its Lua requests here.
(Once parsercountfunction.py
is available again in Pywikibot 3.0
you could also help create those lists to find wikitext templates that currently parse slowly and thus would be worth converting to Lua.)
Improve the "getting started"
part
of the Lua reference manual in response to novice developers' requests.
Spread the word about available reference material (such as that linked to in
the blog post
).
Documents
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Extension:Scribunto
- MediaWiki extension page for this tool
Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual
- Documentation for Lua as available in MediaWiki.
User requirements:
notes
Status updates
Tutorial on using Lua for MediaWiki templates
Planning documents:
/Meeting_2012-01-25
Extension:Scribunto/Brainstorming
Extension:Scribunto/Deployment priorities
Software design document:
Explanation of why Tim's preferred language is Lua
/Benchmarking
Lua modules on this wiki
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List of all modules on this wiki
Communications
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Agreement on Lua
(and
later replies
Patrick Reilly spoke about the Lua scripting work in a presentation on 3 May 2012 (scroll to about 22:00 or 27:00 to see it)
Tutorial session, Berlin, June 2012
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