[Wikitech-l] New template to help automate your wiki's main page

"Tamil Wikipedia has gained an important tool - automated front page maintenance. The code for this was written using Lua by Surya Prakash under the guidance of Yuvipanda. If other wiki projects want to make use of this, it is available at http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Main_page. Please get in touch with Surya if you need any help." It looks like people could use this template on a main page to display a featured article, a user, changes from the current month, and so on. (I ran the Tamil documentation through Google Translate and didn't understand everything; an English translation would be welcome, as would a TODO list for future options to add.) Surya Prakash is at suryaceg{{(a)}}gmail.com. Thanks to Surya, Yuvi, and the organizers of the Chennai event! Thanks, Sumana --- Forwarded email --- Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:41:24 +0530 From: Bala Jeyaraman <sodabottle(a)gmail.com> To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Dwaraka Nath <dtsdwarak(a)gmail.com>om>, Surya Prakash <suryaceg(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Wikimeetup 6 Message-ID: <CAMiPj9n20d6bziDW8fxHimYY+5zqVOGF8Ev_rb2Jsx1Xb-rzrg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all, The event went very well. About 70-80 people from various open source / open content communities attended the sessions over two days. Apart from the usual benefits, Tamil Wikipedia has gained an important tool - automated front page maintenance. The code for this was written using Lua by Surya Prakash under the guidance of Yuvipanda. If other wiki projects want to make use of this, it is available at http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Main_page. Please get in touch with Surya if you need any help. A special shout out to Dwarak and team of Mozilla India, for making this excellent event happen. We hope to have more such open weekend events in Chennai regularly. Reports, slides, pictures and thoughts are available at the following links 1) http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/2u3b 2) https://www.facebook.com/events/152064334973643/155602711286472 3) https://picasaweb.google.com/102002010785949271518/OpenWeeekendsDay1 4) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtsdwarak/sets/72157633728520541/ 5) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sk8abb4irbcy2xx/GbCMxHE5p regards Bala Jeyaraman On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Bala Jeyaraman <sodabottle(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: