2013/2/15 Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org:
Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday, February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including English Wikipedia.
Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the wikis. Those notifications and general communications listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Lua
This is a really exciting deployment for the projects. We're really looking forward to seeing the great things that people do with this, and looking forward to making editing and previewing more responsive for template-heavy pages.
Rob
Hi Rob, I've got a question.
As of now, we write templates and we put data into them, article by article - but this is going to change during 2013, with the implementation of Wikidata, since we'll put data in the common repo and then just call them on local projects.
Is this new prog language going to affect this? I mean, will it help us to write new templates which will call those data more easily?
Thanks,