On 10/23/2013 11:51 AM, John W. Foster wrote:
My understanding is that it is developed for using Lua in embedded scripts & as I don't have that anywhere & don't plan to, whats the best choice for my needs.
Lua binaries are bundled with Scribunto, so most people don't need to have a separate version of Lua installed.
I agree that not enough thought has been put into using Scribunto on non-WMF installations of MediaWiki, but if you want to continue importing templates from Wikipedia, you'll probably need to have it.
If you do decide you want to completely remove all vestiges of Scribunto, then you'll need to remove pages in the "Module:" namespace as that is where the Lua scripts are stored. You'll also need to look for and remove calls to "{{#invoke" from your wiki pages.
HTH,
Mark.