Hi!
I've learn by reading the first examples written by the extension developers and, for language syntax, with Google.

Some people in the English Wikipedia have written a tutorial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_Scribbling that is maybe now the best entry point. But, as for everything in the computing world, the best way to learn is to read code and try ;-). Create a module in test2.wikipedia.org and do your tests here.

The most important page is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual that document the library provided by Scribunto. I have it open each time I edit modules.

I didn't know any project to add missing {{Authority Control}} to article of the English Wikipedia. So, I think you can work on it. Thanks!

Thomas

PS: Is ISNI only for people? If yes, It would be nice to use a bot to add "person" as GND type to all items with an ISNI id because there are a lot of items in this case according to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P213
I can do it if needed.

From: kleinm@oclc.org
To: wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 18:36:40 +0000
Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] Lua modules for Wikisource

Hi Tpt,

Thank you so much for writing the Authority Control Lua modules. I would actually like to learn to write it them myself.

What tutorials did you use, or how did you learn to write the Lua modules?

Also on a sidenote, there is a need for a bot to run on Wikipedias that puts Templates that use Wikidata fallback on pages where Wikidata data exists, but the Wikipedia isn't grabbing it. That's something I plan to get around to, unless anyone knows of any starts on it?

Maximilian Klein
Wikipedian in Residence, OCLC
+17074787023

From: wikisource-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Thomas PT
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:07 AM
To: discussion list for Wikisource, the free library
Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] Lua modules for Wikisource

Hi!
In French Wikisource, we have some templates already rewritten in lua like:
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Module:Header_template The header template use by Proofread Page
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Module:Classement Create clean default DEFAULTSORT
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Module:Table for TOCs
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Module:MathRoman : outputs roman number.

For commons, the issue is that, as I know, Lua doesn't support internationalization very well (but I think it could be done with some hacks).

Thomas

PS: I've also rewritten for French and English Wikipedia the Authority control template. It supports validation of some ids and fallback to Wikidata. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Authority_control/sandbox and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Autorité . The "fallback to Wikidata" feature is live on the French Wikipedia but not on the English one. I can help to adapt it to other languages.

From: zanni.andrea84@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:54:08 +0200
To: wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikisource-l] Lua modules for Wikisource

Hi all,

is there any Wikisource which had Lua deployed?

I'm looking for a book/header templates re-written in Lua to copy and localize :-)

(so far, I've seen only this one in the Italian Wikipedia http://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modulo:Tracce&action=edit)

And I'd love to see Book and Creator templates on Commons Lua-style :-)

Aubrey

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