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