On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:53:48AM -0700, Quim Gil wrote: > Liangent and Micru have proposed to use Code-in to get a bunch of > wikitext templates rewritten in Lua. Let's do it! I also believe > that this is a very good type of task for Google Code-in.
A little warning: where a task can be split into multiple modules, try to make the modules reusable by other modules easily. See my UrlEncoding module [0] for how I've been doing it - AFAIK there's no code style guidelines for this sort of thing, but returning the basic functionality as the function name preceded by an underscore (_) seems pretty simple, and then passing back the in-wikitext functionality as the normal name will make it easy to call from pages. This lets us do things like URL-encode inside of templates, while also letting us URL-encode in Lua modules with relative ease. I guess what I'm saying is, we should probably come up with some sane guidelines about what we want these modules to look like before sending twenty different people to write twenty different solutions for the same thing (URLEncode, URLEncoding, UrLeNcOdInG, URIEncode, and so on), and on top of that, in twenty different code styles. That said, yay Lua! :) [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Module:UrlEncoding -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtrac...@member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist
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