On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 18:35 -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
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.
Well I don't mind a little trouble getting stuff to work, but, I do object to spending time getting a function to work that I do not require. Well I didn't, I may need to rethink that position as I do need to be able to import pages & templates from other wikis, esp. Wikipedia. That said there is little real help available for this new extension. I have followed the installation instructions EXACTLY, but when i try to import pages & templates, I get several errors, & all seem related to Lua, also the PHP relationship to Lua, & the general relationships of all these bits of software. The whole system is poorly arranged, with too many dependencies that are not documented. This is not a rant, just what I see as an end user with a bit of experience. Currently I'm getting the 'Format "text/plain" is not supported for content model Scribunto' error message. Now why in the world would that occur. & How is it fixed. So far the only thing I find is a way to 'edit' out the 'text/plain' & replace it with format-content something or other. Just seems wrong to have to edit functioning pages. Thanks john