On that note, I'll mention there was a previous attempt by Liangent to do better sorting of categories for zhwiki, that unfortunately never got reviewed so ended up bitrotting.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46667
I agree generally, that if you want to change the sort order for categories, that lua is not the best place to implement that. -- bawolff On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 8:25 PM Huji Lee <huji.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Deryck, > > I am not sure what you mean by "re-sort" articles, but if what you means > is that categories should be sorted differently, then I don't think Lua is > the answer, and it would need to be handled on the back end. > > In general, also, I think that for a problem like yours, Lua is not the > right answer. I would recommend investing the time to create a MediaWiki > extension instead, and then work through the WMF processes to have it > enabled on Cantonese Wikipedia (and possibly, the entire family of > Cantonese WMF wikis). > > Lastly, as far as where to store the data, have you considered wikidata? > I'm not sure if wikidata already supports storing pronunciations of words > or not but I'm assuming that would be of interest to that project anyway. > > Hope this helps! > Huji > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 3:55 PM bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Consider using >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.loadData >> , keeping in mind that lua isn't really made with the usecase of huge data >> tables in mind, so there might be limits you run into if your data is >> really big. >> >> -- >> Bawolff >> >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:13 PM Deryck Chan <deryckc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello Ambassadors - This technical question may be relevant to multiple >>> (particularly CJK) language communities so I'm asking it here. >>> >>> What is the advice for writing a Lua script that needs to look up data >>> from a big table (~10k rows at first deployment, potentially increasing in >>> the future)? Does one hard-code the data into a Lua script, or is there a >>> recommended data structure for storing those? >>> >>> The design problem at hand is that the Cantonese Wikipedia wants to >>> re-sort articles by Jyutping rather than Unicode. This will probably >>> involve automating the generation of Jyutping phonetic guides by looking up >>> the Jyutping transcription of common Chinese characters using a Lua module. >>> Where do we store the data? >>> >>> If another wiki has done similar things, we'd be interested in sharing >>> the infrastructure. >>> >>> Deryck >>> On behalf of the Cantonese Wikipedia community >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >>> Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >> Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >> >
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