Looping wikitech-ambassadors back in.
If someone had to ask at all and they did ask on wikitech-ambassadors
then answer should go to wikitech-ambassadors too.
Anyway, the gist is:
Existing pages/templates will continue to work as they are. A new
(optional) way of writing templates will now be available which will
make server performance better (and give you faster responses when you
save some pages) and will also make writing some things possible if
not before or at least much simpler to implement. Over time editors at
the various wikis will convert some templates to use the new format.
-Jeremy
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Lua rollout to
en.wikipedia.org and a few others
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
On 02/15/2013 06:03 PM, Sîrbu Nicolae-Cezar wrote:
Hello,
What is Lua?
Thanks,
Sirbu Nicolae-Cezar
It is a programming language used for embedded scripting. Scribunto is
a MediaWiki extension that allows you to write templates in Lua (other
languages possibly coming later). Done right, this can be clearer, more
powerful, and more efficient than the current ParserFunction templates.
See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua for more information.
Matt Flaschen
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