Hi, all!
As you might have seen on the Wikimedia tech blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/lua-templates-faster-more-flexible-pages/>
or the tech ambassadors list
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-March/000171.html>,
we enabled Lua on all Wikimedia sites last week. Lua
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua> is a scripting language that
enables wiki editors to write faster and more powerful MediaWiki
templates. We're pretty excited about this, partly because of the
promise of Lua + Wikidata
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-open-source/>.
To enable Lua templating on your own wiki, install the Scribunto
extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto>.
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
this week: one on Wednesday
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=02&min=00&sec=0&day=20&month=03&year=2013>(for
Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=03&year=2013>
(for Europe, Africa & America); see m:IRC office hours
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> for details. If you
can't make it, you can also get help at mw:Talk:Lua scripting
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Lua_scripting>.
If you'd like to learn about this kind of event earlier in advance,
consider becoming a Tech ambassador
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors> by subscribing to the
mailing
list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors>.
Thanks,
Sumana
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
P.S. Thanks to Guillaume Paumier for writing the wikimediaannounce-l
post I modded to write this!
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2013-March/000614.…