2024 on River Writes - A MediaWiki Blog

How to join the Wikipedia Discord

river — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:49:19 +0000

Click here if you want to join the Wikipedia Discord server!

The Tag That Shall Not Be Named

river — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:31:04 +0000

A quick post about transclusion, partial transclusion, The Tag That Shall Not Be Named, and whitespace

A Great Comet live performance review

river — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:58:50 +0000

I saw Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 live, and I have THOUGHTS (it was incredible!)

What I have learned about 3D printing

river — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:22:56 +0000

I started 3D printing and I do not recommend it as a hobby

Give people early successes

river — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:47:26 +0000

Someone was wrong on the internet and I’ve taught basic coding to a lot of self-described non-developers

How to refresh cache in MediaWiki

river — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:19:54 +0000

Caching can be super complicated in MediaWiki because there are many different types of cache. This article goes over what to do for each kind.

mwclient 0.11

river — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:20:10 +0000

mwclient 0.11 has released!

How to make Moorish 8-4

river — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:32:31 +0000

A tutorial for Moorish 8-4, a chainmaille weave I designed in 2016

Please use recentchanges

river — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:05:16 +0000

The page MediaWiki:Sidebar is powered by other interface messages, use them!

Representing one-to-many relations

river — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:52:00 +0000

Several examples of video game mechanics that could be represented as one-to-many relations and how to do table design & queries

Introducing the SORCERER example wiki

river — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 04:03:54 +0000

Enjoy beautiful mspaint drawings and learn Cargo!

Notes on "Charlatan" by Pope Brock

river — Tue, 28 May 2024 00:16:37 +0000

John R. Brinkley is a fascinating historical figure whose biography feels too improbable to be true.

Notes on The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

river — Thu, 23 May 2024 18:47:22 +0000

Some tables & lists of Wikipedia links that may help you while reading this fantastic book on the events leading up to World War I

What's up with Variables and Parsoid?

river — Fri, 03 May 2024 22:16:47 +0000

What you need to know about Parsoid development as it affects Extension:Variables

Book Review - Building a StoryBrand

river — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 06:36:00 +0000

A review of and some notes on “Building a StoryBrand”

Gadget - Copy title

river — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:43:27 +0000

A gadget that provides one-click buttons to copy the title or (or pageName) of a MediaWiki page

Style your code blocks with Pygments

river — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:02:39 +0000

Customizing your view-page syntax highlighting in MediaWiki

Markdown vs Wikitext

river — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:14:17 +0000

An at-a-glance guide to formatting Wikitext vs Markdown

One-to-many tables & #vardefine

river — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:38:19 +0000

#vardefine doesn’t always play nice with the order in which you need to evaluate code. Here are some solutions.

Send me your wiki-updating scripts!

river — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:11:56 +0000

Contribute to my list of resources for editing MediaWiki with code

Dealing with defaults

river — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:20:30 +0000

There are a lot of different things you can mean when you say “default parameter” in MediaWiki. This article explains them all.

How to install Sublime Text & Mediawiker

river — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:05:13 +0000

A step-by-step guide with screenshots on installing and configuring Sublime Text with the Mediawiker extension

If {{NAMESPACE}} do nothing, otherwise...

river — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:34:28 +0000

A common design pattern in MediaWiki templating is to write {{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}||}}