Lua gets some love with the mediawiki community. participate in the IRC chats to know more on this.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:38 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC chat on Wednesday 20 March for Q&A about Lua scripting on wikis To: Wikimedia India Community list <[email protected]> Hi, Wikimedia India community! We enabled Lua on all Wikimedia sites last week. Lua <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua> is a scripting language that enables wiki editors to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki templates, and is reasonably easy to learn. We're pretty excited about this, partly because of the promise of Lua + Wikidata <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-open-source/>. You might have heard about this on the Wikimedia tech blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/lua-templates-faster-more-flexible-pages/> or the tech ambassadors list <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-March/000171.html>. If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC this week. You're probably more interested in the one on Wednesday 20 March <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=02&min=00&sec=0&day=20&month=03&year=2013> (for Oceania, Asia & America). There's also one on Friday <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=03&year=2013> (for Europe, Africa & America). See m:IRC office hours <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> for details. If you can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Lua_scripting>. If you'd like to learn about this kind of event earlier in advance, consider becoming a Tech ambassador <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors> by subscribing to the mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors>. Thanks, Sumana -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation P.S. Thanks to Guillaume Paumier for writing the wikimediaannounce-l post I modified to write this! <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2013-March/000614.html> _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
