Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-02-28 Thread Owen Davis
Keeping this lua thread alive with some news. :) For anyone interested in playing around with Lua on a wiki, I've enabled the Lua extension on http://lua.wikia.com It's just a test wiki right now with no real content. It will probably remain a test wiki, although if users want to flesh it out

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-02-28 Thread Tim Starling
On 29/02/12 09:01, Owen Davis wrote: Keeping this lua thread alive with some news. :) For anyone interested in playing around with Lua on a wiki, I've enabled the Lua extension on http://lua.wikia.com It's just a test wiki right now with no real content. It will probably remain a test

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-02-28 Thread Mike Dupont
very cool. how can we see the lua errors? how can we load wiki pages as data in lua? thanks, mike On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Owen Davis o...@wikia-inc.com wrote: For anyone interested in playing around with Lua on a wiki, I've enabled the Lua extension on http://lua.wikia.com It's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-02-01 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 01/26/2012 08:44 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua_scripting Coverage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-30/Technology_report http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/01/1429229/wikipedia-chooses-lua-as-its-new-template-language

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-02-01 Thread Tim Starling
On 29/01/12 09:51, Platonides wrote: Doesn't seem to have arrived into the list. Resending. On 27/01/12 16:17, Platonides wrote: 1) Is there a simple Lua syntax guide? http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/ looks more like a grammar. Certainly not suitable for end users. Yes, the first edition of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-02-01 Thread MZMcBride
Tim Starling wrote: On 29/01/12 09:51, Platonides wrote: Doesn't seem to have arrived into the list. Resending. On 27/01/12 16:17, Platonides wrote: 1) Is there a simple Lua syntax guide? http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/ looks more like a grammar. Certainly not suitable for end users.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-01-28 Thread Platonides
Doesn't seem to have arrived into the list. Resending. On 27/01/12 16:17, Platonides wrote: 1) Is there a simple Lua syntax guide? http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/ looks more like a grammar. Certainly not suitable for end users. 2) The decision seems to have been Lua vs JS. What discarded a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-01-28 Thread Victor Vasiliev
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Is there a simple Lua syntax guide? http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/ looks more like a grammar. Certainly not suitable for end users. Wikipedia article has some nice examples. 2) The decision seems to have been Lua vs

[Wikitech-l] Moving forward with Lua

2012-01-26 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi folks, As you may know, WMF's Platform Engineering group plans to embark on a major performance initiative this year, and had chosen inline scripting as having the biggest potential impact given what's practical now. Tim Starling build a Lua prototype last year which showed a lot of promise