Looping wikitech-ambassadors back in.

If someone had to ask at all and they did ask on wikitech-ambassadors then answer should go to wikitech-ambassadors too.

Anyway, the gist is: Existing pages/templates will continue to work as they are. A new (optional) way of writing templates will now be available which will make server performance better (and give you faster responses when you save some pages) and will also make writing some things possible if not before or at least much simpler to implement. Over time editors at the various wikis will convert some templates to use the new format.

-Jeremy

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org Date: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:31 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Lua rollout to en.wikipedia.org and a few others To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

On 02/15/2013 06:03 PM, Sîrbu Nicolae-Cezar wrote:

Hello,

What is Lua?

Thanks, Sirbu Nicolae-Cezar

It is a programming language used for embedded scripting. Scribunto is a MediaWiki extension that allows you to write templates in Lua (other languages possibly coming later). Done right, this can be clearer, more powerful, and more efficient than the current ParserFunction templates.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua for more information.

Matt Flaschen

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