https://blog.river.me/tags/lua/ RheingoldRiver's blog - MediaWiki development, Leaguepedia stories, and productivity hacks Hugo -- gohugo.io en ©2020-2026, All Rights Reserved Tue, 31 May 2022 10:05:34 +0000 https://blog.river.me/lua-branches/ Tue, 31 May 2022 10:05:34 +0000 Tue, 31 May 2022 10:05:34 +0000 https://blog.river.me/lua-branches/ Lua Branches is a prototype/proof-of-concept MediaWiki extension for making branches of Lua modules & their dependency chains. river mediawiki_extensions lua https://blog.river.me/table-errors/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:28:24 +0000 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:28:24 +0000 https://blog.river.me/table-errors/ A framework for inserting Lua errors into HTML tables using a singleton class river lua css https://blog.river.me/toggleable-columns/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:07:12 +0000 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:07:12 +0000 https://blog.river.me/toggleable-columns/ A simple interface to automatically let users toggle columns in any data table on the entire wiki. river lua widgets javascript css leaguepedia mediawiki https://blog.river.me/frame-wtf/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:46:02 +0000 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:46:02 +0000 https://blog.river.me/frame-wtf/ Frame objects in Scribunto can be confusing, and they do a lot of work. 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This is the story of how I dealt with one. river cargo caching leaguepedia lua mediawiki https://blog.river.me/disambig-highlight/ Tue, 19 May 2020 13:21:48 +0000 Tue, 19 May 2020 13:21:48 +0000 https://blog.river.me/disambig-highlight/ Disambiguations are typically somewhat user-unfriendly, especially when a wiki has a relatively low percentage of pages that are disambiguated and so the presence of one is unexpected. Here I describe my method for improving quality of life when disambiguation links do appear. river mediawiki javascript lua cargo css https://blog.river.me/charinsert/ Tue, 05 May 2020 04:46:37 +0000 Tue, 05 May 2020 04:46:37 +0000 https://blog.river.me/charinsert/ CharInsert is one of my favorite extensions. Here’s how I made a Lua wrapper for it to create a user-friendly interface for anyone to add snippets they want. river mediawiki mediawiki_extensions javascript lua https://blog.river.me/lua-hooks-system/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:44:27 +0000 Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:44:27 +0000 https://blog.river.me/lua-hooks-system/ A system of hooks in Scribunto can be reasonable to use if you have a wikifarm with synced code that occasionally needs to be slightly modified on one or more wikis. I found the system more complicated than it was worth, but I’m documenting it here before I remove it. river mediawiki lua https://blog.river.me/cargo-docstrings/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:16:35 +0000 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 04:16:35 +0000 https://blog.river.me/cargo-docstrings/ This is not a post about how to add Cargo docstrings on table pages. Rather, it’s a post about how to create workarounds in MediaWiki in a reasonably well-controlled manner. river mediawiki cargo lua javascript