I think that would be a nice feature to have.  Amazingly enough, WikiScripts is 
not of the extensions that we have in our codebase at wikia (I think we're over 
800+), but I will take a look at the implementation.  The <lua> parser hook 
allows for parameters, but that's not the same.  Having access to normal 
template parameters would allow a lua template to act as a drop in replacement 
for an existing template, which is essential.

We are in a code freeze period here @ wikia, but when we return from the 
holidays in January I can get the Lua extension enabled on a test wiki 
(lua.wikia.com) so that other people can experiment with this.     

On Dec 21, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote:

> * Owen Davis <[email protected]> [Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:18:46 +0000 
> (UTC)]:
>> It is littered with embedded HTML and string.format statements. Ugh.
>> I'm going to look at something simple like Moustache (which has both
>> JS and Lua implementations already) as a proof of concept.  Does
>> anybody have a better suggestion?  I think Lua (or JS) by itself is 
> not
>> enough, there has to be a nice library of utility functions.  Has 
> anyone
>> thought about what that will really look like?
>> 
> Also it would be great if Lua binding could perform parser functions. I 
> believe that Extension:WikiScripts uses parser frame and can use current 
> template parameters, when available:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiScripts
> Template library (tpl_) allows the script to access the parser and the 
> parameters of the template that invokes the script.
> 
>    tpl_arg( argname[, default] ) returns the argument which name is 
> specified as an argument, or the default value if it is not set (if no 
> default is specified, it returns false).
>    tpl_named_args() returns all the named arguments to the template.
>    tpl_numbered_args() returns all the numbered arguments.
>    tpl_is_transcluded() returns whether the code is invoked from a 
> template.
> 
> Dmitriy
> 
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