On the 13th, we enabled Lua scripting on all wikis. Editors can now use
Lua, an innovative programming language, to generate sections of wiki
pages on all our sites. (I'm sorry that I earlier misspoke as I thought
this was just for the Wikipedias.) More information:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-op…
This is a reminder that we will hold two support sessions on IRC this week:
* Wednesday
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=02&min=00&…
(for Oceania, Asia & America)
* Friday
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&…
(for Europe, Africa & America)
Please see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for details.
Please spread the word to your communities.
If you can't make it to these, you can also get help at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Lua_scripting . Also, the Wikimedia
Foundation hosted a one-hour presentation last week (video recording
available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrhzAtC8fCc ) in which people
from the WMF and the Lua community gave an intro to Lua and explained
how to use it on Wikimedia projects. (We’re working on copying the video
to Commons.)
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation