Sietse wrote:
NB1: I waffled a lot about wiki templates in the previous e-mail, but of course it is also an option to use the Lua tables format and store those files on the wiki. That gives us the visibility and editability of the wiki without binding us to the wiki template format.
Hans wrote:
isn't wikimedia lua aware nowadays?
Hah, so it is — I didn't know that. That sounds like it might be an ideal fit at least for displaying the command reference, possibly also for storing its info. In case anyone else is curious: here are some useful pages I found. (The information was a bit scattered sometimes, but this set of pages covers most bases.) --Sietse Wikipedia's main page on the Lua extension: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua Good example template: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:BananasArgs The reference manual: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension%3AScribunto/Lua_reference_manual The extension's page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto Some discussion on using Lua databases: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-February/066656.html