On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org wrote: <snip>
There are perhaps three primary alternative contenders that don't involve making up our own scripting language (something I'd dearly like to avoid):
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In the Lua Bugzilla thread (#19298), there was some extended discussion about using the AbuseFilter parser as the basis for a Mediawiki scripting language. From your comment should I assume we are taking that option off the table?
There are advantages to that approach in terms of integration and flexibility, though rolling our own scripting language would obviously be a quite complex (and probably long-term) undertaking.
-Robert Rohde