Reminder: this is happening today.
If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua
(or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on
IRC next week: one on Wednesday
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=02&min=00&…
(for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&…
(for Europe, Africa & America); see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for details.
If you can't make it, you can also get help at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Lua_scripting
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
<sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We saw that things went well with the first rollout to several
Wikipedias, so we're planning on giving this capability to ALL
Wikipedias starting on March 13th. This is an initial notification of
that date; volunteer Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) will be communicating more
with you, developing a FAQ, and so on.
We need your help to gather together or point to lists or categories of
templates on your wikis that need converting, so that on the 13th,
volunteers can get started right away! Jan is happy to work with you
about that.
best,
Sumana Harihareswara
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Lua rollout to
en.wikipedia.org and a
few others
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:33:28 -0800
From: Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Coordination of technology deployments across
languages/projects <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>,
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.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
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
https://donate.wikimedia.org