Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules

2014-02-19 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:26 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: There are likely others. What can be done to address this issue? Only way I can think of is to improve the Lua - PHP API so that users can make the

[Wikitech-l] Using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules

2014-02-18 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. While I certainly appreciate the creativity, the developing trend of using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules is worrying and, in my opinion, should be addressed soon. Examples (using {{Special:ListFiles/}} and {{Special:PrefixIndex/}}, respectively):

Re: [Wikitech-l] Using Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules

2014-02-18 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:26 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: There are likely others. What can be done to address this issue? Only way I can think of is to improve the Lua - PHP API so that users can make the queries directly. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class