Hi everyone. Thanks to Tom Hughes, we now have Scribunto extension set up on OSM wiki, which allows Lua language in addition to the very slow and unreadable wiki template language.
Documentation: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua Benefits: * Much better performance compared with wiki template language * Substantially more readable * Allows greater flexibility with how templates are set up Migration: The usual migration is to re-implement complex and often-used templates in Lua (as a Module:* pages), and keep the existing template as a "wrapper" - a one-liner with {{#invoke:mymodulepage|mymodulefunction}}. This way existing pages do not need to be changed, but get all the performance benefits. Template info: Create a "doc" sub-page, e.g. Module:<my_module>/doc and put all the documentation there. Testing: I would advise to create "unit tests" for the complex templates. The simplest way is to create a Module:<my_module_page>/doc page with a table of all possible usages of the module, There is also a good practice page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua#Unit_testing Once again, thanks Tom for helping with this!
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