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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Lua/Modules
Rabu, 2022-02-23 13:59:23

deletion criterion G8: Wikipedia:Lua/Modules/Overview, Wikipedia:Lua/Modules/Overview/Data, and Module:Module overview. Steel1943 (talk) 20:22, 20 April...

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Wikipedia:Lua/Modules
Senin, 2025-06-09 02:04:27

For an overview of Lua modules on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Lua. For further information about high-risk templates, many of which use Lua modules, see Wikipedia:High-risk...

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Wikipedia:Lua string functions
Minggu, 2024-06-16 22:03:46

Special:PrefixIndex/Module:String – tracking of Lua modules can be done by using Special:PrefixIndex Help:Lua debugging – a how-to guide about debugging Lua modules Category:Lua-based...

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Wikipedia:Lua/Requests/Archive 1
Jumat, 2025-01-10 23:19:07

test framework at Module:UnitTests for Lua scripts on Wikipedia. A simple example from Module:Bananas/tests: -- Unit tests for [[Module:Bananas]]. Click...

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Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling
Jumat, 2026-01-16 23:16:10

template itself, and one or more back-end modules, stored in the Module: namespace. These modules contain Lua programs that are executed on the wiki servers...

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Wikipedia:Lua unit testing
Sabtu, 2016-01-02 16:48:40

15 March 2013 (UTC) wp:Lua – overview of Lua usage in Wikipedia wp:Lua debugging – methods to debug problems in Lua script wp:Lua requests – list of requests/discussion...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SocietyBot
Senin, 2015-03-23 04:29:59

consensus opinion is to make the change; please show test-cases in the lua modules that demonstrate compatibility with the existing templates (yet fix the...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ahechtbot 6
Rabu, 2020-10-28 22:27:47

Source code available: User:Ahechtbot/transclusioncount.py Function overview: Create lua-formatted lists of highly transcluded templates. Links to relevant...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/WegweiserBot
Minggu, 2023-09-03 23:42:09

the Lua tables, and formatting that into JSON. Next, it compares the category contents to the Lua table's contents, checks to see if the Lua module has...

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Wikipedia:Automated taxobox system/map
Senin, 2026-02-09 23:43:53

templates. Module:Autotaxobox provides key support for the system. In particular, all traversals of the taxonomic hierarchy are coded in Lua in this module to...

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Wikipedia:Page Reformat Crisis
Rabu, 2014-04-16 23:27:26

February 2013. Meanwhile, the epidemic growth of ever-more templates (plus Lua modules) has bogged down the page-reformat queues with millions of jobs to re-re-re-reformat...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/StradBot 2
Sabtu, 2024-10-12 05:52:31

03:19, Saturday, February 17, 2024 (UTC) Function overview: Automatically populate sandboxes for modules listing disambiguation templates, set index templates...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 30
Kamis, 2018-05-17 00:42:36

Programming language(s): AWB / Lua Source code available: AWB / Module:Infobox AFL biography/convert Function overview: Replace deprecated parameters...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 108
Kamis, 2022-12-01 08:28:59

#Where to test Lua modules. There is now a Module:Sandbox. — Hex (❝?!❞) 16:04, 24 February 2013 (UTC) Categories can be split/renamed and Lua performance...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/StradBot
Senin, 2023-10-23 01:24:30

as a Lua table, and saves the result at Module:Disambiguation/templates Module:Disambiguation/templates/sandbox. The top comment of the module is parsed...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 April 16
Minggu, 2019-05-26 03:16:24

merge Module:Plain text? New more generic name Module:Strip? -DePiep (talk) 21:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC) Comment: overview of related modules etc.: Module:Kill...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot II 4
Selasa, 2020-07-14 09:33:46

{{pp-move|small=yes}}, or {{pp-pc|small=yes}} as applicable. The associated Lua module for each template will ensure the correct padlock is displayed based on...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 33
Minggu, 2022-04-24 03:40:20

Programming language(s): AWB / Lua Source code available: AWB / Module:WikiProject Central America/convert Function overview: Converts deprecated task forces...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 May 15
Senin, 2020-06-01 07:26:28

custom Lua code" (a separate function within Module:Other uses) as part of a design decision that all the hatnote template logic should be written in Lua with...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 September 21
Senin, 2022-02-21 14:46:34

importing modules I consider useless from other wikis. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 20:38, 21 September 2018 (UTC) In my opinion, modules like Module:Formatnum...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2022 March 26
Rabu, 2022-03-30 08:47:07

their subtemplates in a lua module. Better performance and the 'unused' functionality is protected by those portions of the module that are 'used'. Then...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BU RoBOT 2
Sabtu, 2025-01-25 03:08:11

Programming language(s): AWB / Lua Source code available: AWB / Module:Infobox gridiron football person/convert Function overview: Split deprecated teams/years...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Snaevar-bot 2
Minggu, 2025-09-28 00:31:40

September 2025 (UTC) c:Module:Airport statistics filtered does not access the wikidata query service at all. It uses wikidata lua access. The old template...

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Wikipedia:Request directory
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 16:22:44

any other categories listed above. Lua requests – a page to request help from Lua developers in writing a Lua module. Database query – a page to request...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ConservationStatusAndRangeMapBot
Minggu, 2022-08-07 23:05:03

wasn't really familiar with modules but after reading though the documentation that's a much better way of going about this. The Lua code is doing almost the...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AAlertBot 2
Minggu, 2022-04-24 03:41:10

syntax of the main one, with all the extra module stuff and such. So now it's fully integrated and using LUA as backend. We probably shouldn't go back...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2020-04-26/In focus
Sabtu, 2024-01-06 09:46:34

parser functions, Lua, etc. It only suggests a change in where they are stored: transitioning from the current state, in which modules and templates can...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 September 15
Jumat, 2026-01-23 01:04:34

line from Module:Linguistic deletion. Many modules on English Wikipedia is designed to also apply on any non-English Wikipedia. Many modules on English...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 November 28
Minggu, 2019-12-15 02:31:58

SimpleArgs. I would simply like you not to delete these modules because they are necessary for modules and templates that are used in the articles: Cynthia...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 109
Minggu, 2025-01-26 22:57:53

Phabricator Task T48633 Hello all. I've noticed that when previewing Lua modules using the "preview page with this template" option, if there is a script...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/YTStatsBot
Kamis, 2025-09-25 14:20:20

"changed 3.44m to 3.43m". ƒirefly ( t · c ) 11:53, 19 February 2021 (UTC) A lua module querying a .json page is probably more efficient than a massive wikicode...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 April 28
Selasa, 2026-01-06 22:43:34

transclusions · logs · subpages) Propose merging Module:Log10 with Module:Math. We don't need to have separate lua modules for every mathematical operator {{3x|p}}ery...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-02-13/Technology report
Sabtu, 2024-01-06 08:42:26

last week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month. The projects...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Abotzi
Rabu, 2015-08-12 00:47:00

Programming language(s): AWB / Lua Source code available: AWB / Module:Infobox college coach/convert (test cases) Function overview: The bot will split <br>-separated...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MusikBot 7
Minggu, 2015-12-20 17:20:29

adding {{subst:TAFI scheduled selection}} to the end of the 2nd section. A Lua module in the template generates what will be the new TAFI in the coming weeks...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-01-01/Technology report
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 01:10:06

community request" (for a "Central repository for gadgets, templates and Lua modules", which had been the third most popular proposal in the 2015 Community...

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Wikipedia:List of guidelines
Jumat, 2026-03-27 07:07:32

disambiguation page. High-risk templates protection High-risk templates and Lua modules may be fully protected or template protected. Edits to such pages should...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/tutorialspoint.com
Senin, 2017-04-24 14:35:13

- c; 6531) to v:en:Python Programming/Modules (diff  !top) - Link: www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_modules.htm (R/Xmeta/L) User is in trusted groups...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-01-31/Humour
Jumat, 2024-06-21 23:25:50

the Phabberbug and More Lost Stories What PetScan Have I Ran?  Lua the Big-Hearted Module The Admin's Mop Bartholomew and the Ombud The Place I Be and Other...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:45:48

Wikipedia? Read these primers! Approval process – How these discussions work Overview/Policy – What bots are/What they can (or can't) do Dictionary – Explains...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 November 3
Jumat, 2025-11-14 05:00:25

following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 24
Minggu, 2022-03-06 16:11:06

history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Unused as it has been converted to Lua Module:SportsRankings/data/WBSC Women's World Rankings. Gonnym (talk) 07:33,...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 158
Rabu, 2024-03-06 00:23:25

genuine programming language (LUA). It is fact that wrapping the entry point of the module (and/ or all functions within all modules) should still catch it,...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 March 5
Senin, 2022-03-14 01:24:17

nomination. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC) Transwiki the non-Lua historical version to Templates.Wikia -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 16:40, 7 March...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 January 3
Selasa, 2022-01-11 07:23:15

the article - it should be deleted. Besides, making such templates not in lua is bad manners on my part ·Carn·!? 07:08, 20 December 2021 (UTC) Relisted...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 178
Selasa, 2024-05-07 00:02:17

understand Lua? I for instance have not learnt Lua and will probably keep coding template code, only calling Lua modules others have built (if a Lua module happens...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Theo's Little Bot 25
Selasa, 2025-03-11 19:57:29

whole approach to be re-evaluated: the introduction of Lua and the release of VisualEditor. While Lua offers many potential functional improvements, the developers...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 December 21
Jumat, 2026-01-23 14:20:52

24 December 2014 (UTC) We most absolutely should not bury content in Lua modules. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:01, 24 December...

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Wikipedia:Common.js and common.css
Senin, 2026-04-27 13:08:16

the subpages on JavaScript and Stylesheets Explanation how a user can customize the skin with these pages Overview of these and related pages Use of CSS...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 120
Minggu, 2026-03-15 23:54:36

this behaviour occurs. It doesn't happen when passing output between Lua modules, as the parser is not involved in that. But the output has to be returned...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Newsletter archive
Minggu, 2024-11-03 14:41:05

new templates, which are in turn supported by some new Lua modules. Those templates and modules are being put to the test, in the new portals that have...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 7
Selasa, 2022-02-15 07:43:29

transclusions · logs · subpages) All of these templates are remnants of the pre-Lua version of Template:coord. They are no longer transcluded except in a couple...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 172
Minggu, 2022-06-12 17:19:00

and maintaining the CS1/2 modules. That means Trappist has a far better overview of the intricacies and features of that module than I have. I would not...

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Wikipedia:How to improve image quality
Selasa, 2025-09-16 14:52:39

might be considered a suitable featured picture candidate! Image editing: overview of editing methods for raster-based images Image use policy: general information...

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Wikipedia:Dashboard
Jumat, 2026-04-03 01:24:55

Wikipedia Dashboard! Shortcuts WP:-WP:- WP:DBDWP:DBD This page provides an overview of the various discussions and requests taking place throughout English...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Xinbenlv bot
Minggu, 2019-12-08 23:24:25

the Lua module Module:Complex date] to render dates in the wiki's language if that's the part you feel may need translating, as long as the module is available...

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Wikipedia:Tags
Selasa, 2026-04-28 03:14:42

check the edit filter that added the tag to clarify its purpose and for an overview of the edits it was applied to. If an edit filter tag is disabled or even...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 169
Sabtu, 2025-10-18 11:42:41

contribs) I've been looking at Lua modules on WP and I'm wondering how I can find out which modules call a particular module in their code. For example,...

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Wikipedia:Specific-source Template System
Rabu, 2026-06-03 15:02:54

append to the base ID. All book metadata is stored in "shards" which are Lua Modules that contain simple tables. There are two types of shards: Single - A...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 184
Sabtu, 2022-05-28 04:59:39

There's a new proposal to localize Lua modules in a more modern, safe, and convenient manner: mw:Translatable modules. In the foreseeable future it will...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Monkbot 1
Minggu, 2022-04-24 03:35:26

templates utilize either the wiki-markup {{citation/core}} or the newer Lua Module:Citation/CS1 engines to render individual citations in a consistent manner...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2017 March 6
Rabu, 2026-01-21 06:58:53

(UTC) @Jc86035: I am not a Lua expert: how hard would it be to replicate the {{Location mark+}} and {{Location mark~}} code in Lua? Although JohnBlackburne...

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Wikipedia:Portal
Senin, 2026-01-12 02:06:04

{{Transclude lead excerpt}}. The slideshow components are powered by templates/modules that present excerpts or images from designated sources in a slideshow...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 180
Minggu, 2026-03-08 01:21:52

done this but now I get the big red error message 'Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Is rtl' not found.' John Cummings (talk) 13:30, 24...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 July 26
Kamis, 2023-08-03 08:07:04

demonstration in a talk page. This template invokes a module named for editor RexxS which is marked "Lua functions for personal use". – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:22...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 177
Rabu, 2024-04-24 05:12:11

and/or in several points. Module:SimpleDebug solved this problem easily. I make publicity of this module in Help:Lua#Debugging modules. --Jmarchn (talk) 14:36...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:25:15

MOS talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk MediaWiki talk (no subpages) Module Module talk Module talk (no subpages) Portal Portal talk Portal talk (no subpages)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 102
Senin, 2024-02-19 17:58:11

Lua script modules, carefully, might create a hybrid faster than either alone. For computer technicians, writing a "standard" computer-language Lua script...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 April 2
Selasa, 2021-04-20 18:35:32

handling templates, this has arbitrary constraints that can be avoided by using Lua. Specifically, this can be replaced by {{#invoke:ustring|codepoint|\character}}...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 148
Senin, 2022-05-09 23:14:33

read. —PC-XT+ 02:14, 29 July 2016 (UTC) Why did Wikipedia introduce Lua modules/templates? What is the benefit of them? - NeedAGoodUsername (talk) 15:52...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages/Module talk (no subpages)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:01:19

MOS talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk MediaWiki talk (no subpages) Module Module talk Module talk (no subpages) Portal Portal talk Portal talk (no subpages)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 165
Kamis, 2024-10-17 05:11:16

conflict) All of the Module:String functions will use Lua patterns but Lua patterns don't support the alternation (|) operator. In Lua itself you would 'or'...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages/Module
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:01:19

MOS talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk MediaWiki talk (no subpages) Module Module talk Module talk (no subpages) Portal Portal talk Portal talk (no subpages)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 149
Minggu, 2022-05-29 19:54:59

the module without checking if any other modules used it. Hopefully someone better at Lua than I am can fix this quickly. (Posted message on WT:Lua as...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 December 8
Kamis, 2025-12-25 17:43:12

following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate...

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Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:32:42

priority and thus override things defined 'earlier'. We will try to give an overview of load order, later on. Specificity If load order is failing you when...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages/Module talk
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:01:20

MOS talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk MediaWiki talk (no subpages) Module Module talk Module talk (no subpages) Portal Portal talk Portal talk (no subpages)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 191
Sabtu, 2023-03-18 22:27:40

like it was satan and my entire Lua resume is right there in that module. If someone with more experience writing modules than I wants to take a poke at...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 131
Jumat, 2025-11-14 03:07:26

with Parsoid? I'm not at all sure of the details on that, though. For Lua modules, there's no way that I know of to do this automatically, and writing...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 January 24
Rabu, 2021-02-10 08:08:40

in a deletion review). The result of the discussion was Refactor to use LUA. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 18:56, 6 February 2021 (UTC) Template:4TeamBracke...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 167
Sabtu, 2025-08-02 14:51:31

handling with long Lua modules. I have created a more/less edit friendly technical background with several templates and modules. I have also started...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 129
Minggu, 2026-05-31 12:13:19

"IsPlaceholder" Module:InfoboxImage:134: in function "chunk" mw.lua:518: ? [C]: in function "getExpandedArgument" mw.lua:162: ? Module:Infobox:321: in...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 162
Rabu, 2025-09-24 01:37:21

what you want. See the Module description (English), de:Wikipedia:Lua/Modul/TemplateData/Test (test overview) and de:Wikipedia:Lua/Modul/TemplateData/Allerlei...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 196
Minggu, 2022-09-11 21:50:49

edit to Module:ISO 3166/testcases that replaced the invokes of the main module with invokes of the sandbox module. The result was 1.7 seconds of Lua time...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions/Archive 20
Sabtu, 2024-07-06 13:47:39

done with it here so far. Further info at Wikipedia:Lua, existing modules at Special:PrefixIndex/Module:, see histories for active contributors who might...

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Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots
Senin, 2025-03-10 06:58:38

user Edibobb, has created a large number of insect-related articles. An overview of Wikipedia bots Types of bots Clément, Maxime; Guitton, Matthieu J. (2015)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 173
Senin, 2024-11-18 11:45:38

including sub-templates and modules, from this project to Wikispecies. However the page at species:Repositories/Wikidata is giving "Lua error: callParserFunction:...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 August 8
Kamis, 2025-12-11 01:25:13

well tested Lua module backend. This template is completely unused outside of documenting it's own existence, it has a complex Lua module behind it which...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 147
Rabu, 2025-09-24 20:48:55

(UTC) Yes, frwiki Wikidata module's importing to some ther Wikipedia requires importing a lot of modules (if you're not a Lua expert). --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs)...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 79
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 02:40:03

document modules you use on the module documentation page. You can't click on links in the module code, so having a link to dependency modules from the...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 170
Minggu, 2026-03-22 22:53:35

about modules are normally at WT:LUA. Lua's tables are extremely convenient and I now find that going back to Python is a pain. It's true that Lua's tables...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 119
Minggu, 2025-01-26 22:52:13

Levinson (talk) 15:54, 9 October 2013 (UTC) It is possible to write Lua script modules which can read any content page (but not wp:Special_pages) and then...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 144
Jumat, 2025-07-18 23:57:18

missing something obvious... Are definitions for various names in Lua [I need it for CS1 modules, specifically] such as 'sheet', 'Лист', 'liSt' in ['Sheet']...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Dušan Kreheľ (bot) IX
Minggu, 2026-03-01 22:04:28

the implementation is correct (but I see it's done through a module and I can't read lua code all that well). If you would need any other info from the...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 127
Jumat, 2025-11-14 03:07:13

(UTC) At Wikipedia_talk:Lua#Lua_module_needed_at_the_Tigrinya_Wikipedia_.28TI.WIKIPEDIA.ORG.29 I posted a request for a Lua module at the Tigrinya Wikipedia...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Hazard-Bot 33
Minggu, 2016-01-31 11:31:11

question why the template? We wanted something that wasn't buried deep in a Lua module, and could be tweaked (and/or noincluded or blanked with minimal need...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 186
Rabu, 2025-09-10 04:16:31

On WP:Protection policy#Overview of types of protection, it says that template protection is for high risk templates and modules. If so, why are some high...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 171
Selasa, 2026-04-14 18:47:53

(UTC) I noticed that a lot of templates on Wikipedia use modules/Lua/Scribunto. I know modules can do almost the same things as templates. However, I was...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 160
Kamis, 2022-12-01 08:27:39

It's a couple lines of code. Why though? Modules are not really meant to be used outside templates or other modules. --Izno (talk) 14:31, 8 November 2017...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 145
Rabu, 2025-09-24 21:50:03

the lua patch was dropped from the current deployment branch. That has been redeployed. So as of about 25 Mar 03:45 UTC, the issue with lua modules and...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 136
Sabtu, 2025-07-26 09:43:19

tracked migrating modules on T88950 and migrated many ourselves. I'm sorry that we still caused disruption here, for some reasons these modules appeared as...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 May 27
Kamis, 2020-06-04 21:05:33

how/why we would merge a lua-module with a template. Frietjes (talk) 16:15, 30 May 2020 (UTC) Delete per above. Test / demo module; no need to preserve it...

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Wikipedia:Tech news/Archive 13
Jumat, 2025-09-19 02:59:59

an API module now exists to load Codex icons. [97][98] Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 March 13
Senin, 2024-12-23 03:10:13

00:08, 21 March 2020 (UTC) Template:Load NPP Modules (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Module:NPP (talk · history · transclusions · logs ·...

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Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Kamis, 2019-04-11 09:22:07

works by choosing specific navboxes or articles and feeding them into Lua modules that output "selected articles" or "selected images". The most obvious...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2017 September 13
Minggu, 2017-09-17 07:10:25

following error, "Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 442: Unable to find the specified location map definition. Neither "Module:Location map/data/Pyeongtaek"...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 152
Sabtu, 2025-01-25 12:48:49

that the best way of implementing this would be to write a Lua module that calls Bar. With Lua it would be easy to determine the number of lines in the...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 October 27
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 07:49:18

following is an archived discussion concerning one or more templates or modules. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 109
Jumat, 2023-04-21 22:47:57

learn Lua on my own by practicing on building new modules to learn the basics of it before digging into some of the complexities in the modules that would...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 195
Rabu, 2025-07-16 19:33:59

reveal them. Matma Rex talk 18:54, 16 February 2022 (UTC) Hi, does a Lua module for Software version parsing and comparison exist somewhere, here, on...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 159
Kamis, 2023-02-09 15:38:37

something in the corresponding Lua modules (Module:For nowiki and Module:ForLoop respectively); could someone more tech- and Lua-savvy than me please take...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests
Rabu, 2026-06-03 02:10:58

criteria). WP:TEMPREQ, to request a new template written in wiki code or Lua. WP:SCRIPTREQ, to request a new user script. Many useful scripts already...

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Wikipedia:Pending changes
Kamis, 2026-04-30 05:21:20

reviewing system, part of the original proposal. Wikipedia:PC2012, an overview of the 2012 implementation of pending changes. Wikipedia:Pending changes...

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Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/Sohom Datta
Jumat, 2025-08-01 23:10:58

fulfilling edit requests for fully protected pages, editing fully protected Lua modules, system messages, and potentially running admin bots. In addition to...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 21
Selasa, 2019-04-09 11:26:10

with a stub tag) or clearer logic. Autodetection of stub status through LUA magic being much much preferable to bot runs on hundred of thousands of talk...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2023-01-01
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:58:54

community request" (for a "Central repository for gadgets, templates and Lua modules", which had been the third most popular proposal in the 2015 Community...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 186
Kamis, 2024-10-17 05:40:07

Style 1 / Citation Style 2 (cs1/2) Lua module suite be updated to reflect the changes that have accumulated in the module-suite's sandboxen? This is an all...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 135
Senin, 2022-05-30 15:37:53

you want me to write more modules for specific purposes, then please feel free to ask, but please understand that these modules are created by volunteers...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/New Weather Infobox
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:11:57

opposition. NoahTalk 02:38, 18 January 2023 (UTC) Don't beat yourself up; pre lua template code can be enough to drive an editor crosseyed. So many braces...

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Trialpears
Selasa, 2021-09-28 23:17:08

think other MATLAB users can relate to that. I've also used Lua to make a few Wikipedia modules, as well as ComputerCraft turtles if anyone knows about that...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Workspace
Senin, 2019-10-21 21:14:53

lists, for which five entries from each list are randomly transcluded via Lua module: "Assess quality!" links (generated by report) "Assess priority!" links...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 112
Minggu, 2025-01-26 23:03:31

the same as WYSIWYG-edit, and paragraphs generated by templates (or Lua script modules) would limit access to the top of the template call, but it would...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 137
Minggu, 2024-06-09 18:47:55

template:gallery to use the 'unstrip' lua function. not sure how to file the bug or how many articles/templates/modules are impacted. per the discussion at...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/CapsuleBot 2
Sabtu, 2024-10-12 05:54:45

causes inconsistency between pages. Something else I thought of is a Lua module that automatically grabs the placements, but I'm not sure if such a thing...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 182
Kamis, 2024-10-17 05:12:40

the populations in a module subpage along with the country and covid QIDs. The cases and deaths can be retrieved within the lua time limits (just). I...

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Wikipedia:Bot policy
Minggu, 2026-05-24 01:32:36

operator's or their own userspace (user pages, user talk pages, user's module sandbox pages and subpages thereof), and which are not otherwise disruptive...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages/Help talk (no subpages)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:00:46

MOS talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk MediaWiki talk (no subpages) Module Module talk Module talk (no subpages) Portal Portal talk Portal talk (no subpages)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 124
Kamis, 2024-10-17 05:39:15

serious testing, the /sandbox page is still best.) It also works with Lua modules, and you can preview more than one template at once by using a prefix...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 193
Senin, 2026-03-23 06:58:48

right is how we write the same thing (except for the noinclude part) in Lua/modules. It should be simple enough. Top, bottom, left and right are coordinates...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 12
Selasa, 2026-03-24 02:21:49

--Gonnym (talk) 10:21, 28 November 2018 (UTC) OK. Have you asked a known Lua expert - such as RexxS (talk · contribs) - if there is already a function...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 116
Kamis, 2023-02-16 05:02:46

edit to Module:citation/CS1 or its submodules. Compared to Wiki markup, Lua code is a nightmare to trace through (I have few of the Modules on my watchlist...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 141
Jumat, 2024-05-10 14:14:14

2015 (UTC) I'm not a Lua coder but I have made {{IPv6 other}} to test for IPv6 addresses by using Module:String#match with a long Lua pattern. If others...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 111
Senin, 2023-09-18 21:32:10

required page then you can just go ahead. Creating and editing templates, Lua modules or user scripts is like editing articles. There is no application process...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 132
Selasa, 2022-05-17 10:52:45

the complexity required of the module, and since I'm just a learner with Lua, it may take a little longer than I initially inferred; sorry, I will endeavour...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2017-08-05
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:57:48

via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem....

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 139
Kamis, 2022-06-09 03:21:29

it does. Specifically: LoadModule deflate_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so <IfModule mod_deflate.c> <IfModule mod_filter.c> DeflateCompressionLevel...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 March 19
Senin, 2019-05-20 06:40:44

article space since the 2013 conversion of {{authority control}} to a Lua module. Any remaining uses should be able to be converted or substituted. See...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 120
Jumat, 2023-03-03 10:22:41

{{#invoke:N|...}} module name, and corresponding require('Module:N') changes made to any other Lua modules that require the module that has been moved...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC: Ending the system of portals
Sabtu, 2025-09-13 05:55:38

need to copy and paste, in the form of automated templates supported by Lua modules, that fetch and display excerpts automagically via transclusion. This...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 114
Minggu, 2025-11-02 21:27:22

mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual#Language library shows a number of language functions. It might be better to create a separate module that would take...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages/Help talk
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:00:43

MOS talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk MediaWiki talk (no subpages) Module Module talk Module talk (no subpages) Portal Portal talk Portal talk (no subpages)...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2017-09-06
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:57:49

via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this...

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Wikipedia:Books
Senin, 2026-04-13 05:36:39

symbols Timeline EasyTimeline syntax WikiHiero syntax Templates and Lua modules Templates Advanced template coding Template documentation Template index...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 September 11
Senin, 2026-03-02 07:31:24

banner is used. He is rewriting the WikiProjectShell template into a Lua module. I'll let him know to watch this so he doesn't have to waste his time...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Long pages/Help
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:00:41

MOS talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk MediaWiki talk (no subpages) Module Module talk Module talk (no subpages) Portal Portal talk Portal talk (no subpages)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 157
Kamis, 2024-10-17 05:14:35

--Mhhossein talk 05:27, 18 July 2017 (UTC) I was playing around with a Lua at Module:Sandbox/Ahecht/sandbox, and I came across an interesting case. I wrote...

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Wikipedia:Bots
Kamis, 2026-06-04 13:51:06

symbols Timeline EasyTimeline syntax WikiHiero syntax Templates and Lua modules Templates Advanced template coding Template documentation Template index...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 215
Rabu, 2024-10-23 04:32:00

for most Lua modules but ultimately there should be additional documentation that goes beyond the default functions and describes what the module exactly...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 142
Sabtu, 2025-01-25 03:56:13

implemented it to see also template/module and it works! @Trappist the monk: Thank you also for your time with citation modules; I haven’t checked your changes...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 164
Jumat, 2023-12-01 17:02:07

understand Module:Convert, for example. If they have an issue, they can pop it onto the talk page and it's someone else's problem. Using Lua modules is hence...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 143
Minggu, 2026-02-22 10:57:33

here. You can edit the header for modules with a /doc subpage at MediaWiki:Scribunto-doc-page-show, and for modules without a /doc subpage at...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 140
Minggu, 2025-01-26 23:03:20

September 2015 (UTC) Our citation templates are all based on the Lua module Module:Citation/CS1, which is maintained by User:Trappist the monk. I see...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2017 January 9
Jumat, 2025-12-12 08:26:56

be abbreviated (born, circa, floruit). Open to other merging options (modules, etc). Primefac (talk) 19:37, 9 January 2017 (UTC) Comment As far as the...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Dictionary
Minggu, 2026-03-01 18:42:18

symbols Timeline EasyTimeline syntax WikiHiero syntax Templates and Lua modules Templates Advanced template coding Template documentation Template index...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 81
Rabu, 2025-09-24 02:21:27

a Lua table. The proposal at that link also kinda misses the point imo, people can always suggest updates on the talk if they can't edit the module, and...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 125
Sabtu, 2024-06-29 21:39:42

the underlying Lua parser. — Keφr 14:02, 2 April 2014 (UTC) I experience a weird behaviour by the CodeEditor when editing Lua modules. Most often I get...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 188
Jumat, 2023-03-03 10:12:46

March 2021 (UTC) I'm wondering why Deokali Canal is displaying "Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 422: No value was provided for longitude." I...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 175
Senin, 2026-03-23 07:01:35

but instead of writing a new module (which woudl obviously use os.time), I was wondering if I could use an existing one. Lua is not my strong suit after...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 184
Rabu, 2024-03-06 00:21:18

XCP-protected subtemplates that cover the content (maybe with a mediating Lua module to sanitize potential attempts at CSS vandalism). But that's just spitballing...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2015-08-12
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:56:39

due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [11] Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [12] Text was sometimes lost...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 April 11
Jumat, 2020-04-24 00:15:57

constructions that use wikitext (modern hatnotes should be using the Lua modules, which add lots of standardized diagnostic and formatting goodness),...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2016-11-04
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:57:39

on two wishes: Wish #3: Central repository for gadgets, templates and Lua modules. Foundational work is underway by WMF developer Legoktm. Wish #6: Allow...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2022-06-26
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:58:49

a lot of the more complex templates on here before everything became all Lua-y. Grumble, grumble, old fart noises, 'Get off my lawn', et cetera. Reader...

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Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group
Kamis, 2025-12-11 02:55:34

symbols Timeline EasyTimeline syntax WikiHiero syntax Templates and Lua modules Templates Advanced template coding Template documentation Template index...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 150
Senin, 2026-03-23 16:58:50

across {{cite thesis}} to Wikimedia Commons, but there seem to be some lua modules missing over there. Could someone versed in these things copy them across...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 February 7
Kamis, 2023-02-09 16:18:17

doing) 17:52, 15 February 2019 (UTC) Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia_talk:Lua (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) The above discussion is...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 113
Minggu, 2025-01-26 22:52:22

thing needs rewriting in Lua anyway, so rather than wrestle with that template code I think it would be better just to port it to Lua. I'll add that to my...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2024 September 21
Kamis, 2024-09-26 08:13:08

makes many calls to {{PDCFlag}}, which calls Module:DartsRankings, which in turn makes many calls to the LUA function gsub. This is one of the functions...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 162
Rabu, 2025-09-24 01:38:53

responsibility of the portal editor. Modules, like templates, have their own idiosyncracies. Other than Template, Portal, Module, and perhaps their respective...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (all)
Sabtu, 2022-06-11 18:09:49

working with other large modules rarely need to understand every feature those modules provide. If there are specific parts of the module that are difficult...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 103
Jumat, 2025-01-24 07:51:52

addressed. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:54, 12 September 2012 (UTC) See mw:Lua scripting for the timetable. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:44, 12 September 2012...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/ft.com
Senin, 2017-03-27 00:20:37

com/article.php. 2007-12-11 06:12:49: User pt:139.82.100.5 (talk - contribs) to pt:Lua (linguagem de programação) (diff). Links: www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 160
Senin, 2022-02-21 14:41:23

the approach MarioGom has taken here doesn't actually work, because Lua modules get their input post-template-expansion and thus don't see any curly...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 8
Senin, 2023-04-03 15:04:25

'property' for Wikidata property inclusions 'invoke' for module invocations (currently only Lua) Cheers, Bináris (talk) 09:38, 30 March 2013 (UTC) See discussion...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 80
Minggu, 2022-06-19 20:38:25

opportunity to test out tabular data on Commons with a Lua template. If it works, the Lua module can be rolled out to other wiki languages without needing...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/sourceforge.net
Kamis, 2008-03-20 21:01:04

churchledger.com/xoops/churchledger/modules/content/index.php?id=4 www.churchledger.com/xoops/churchledger/modules/content/index.php?id=4 sourceforge.net/forum/forum...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 212
Senin, 2024-07-22 21:57:33

That's one of the functions in the Lua standard library, not added by Scribunto. Your other options besides the modules are 1) iterating over table 2 and...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 March 3
Kamis, 2024-10-17 07:13:55

transclusions · logs · subpages) Template:Latest stable software release/Lua Player (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Template:Latest...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 218
Minggu, 2025-03-30 00:34:59

in the French module (which is the most detailed of all modules), but with no success. Could someone with more experience with map modules please have a...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 112
Kamis, 2024-09-12 00:46:45

decide what size the image should be. Someday I'll get good at Lua and modify the module to strongly advise against entering actual dimensions into infoboxes...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive335
Selasa, 2025-09-23 21:21:03

of the page for "semi-protected" shows twenty eight template pages and lua module pages that (as I understand it) could allow this to happen again. Checking...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 101
Senin, 2024-01-22 04:15:39

Scribunto lua technology The first example uses copy of {{Coord}} and it's many subtemplates. The 2nd example a conversion to a Lua module with similar...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 65
Minggu, 2022-05-01 10:42:38

Special:Import is that it brings across all the other sub-templates and Lua modules necessary to make the template work, so I know that at least some of...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1160
Jumat, 2022-09-30 11:45:33

2022 (UTC) The citations in all articles are showing a message: Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1 at line 1392: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 57
Jumat, 2023-03-17 23:50:00

might look into a lua replacement module that can be plugged into the citation templates. Werieth (talk) 21:27, 8 November 2013 (UTC) Lua is a most cluefull...

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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Featured log/June 2016
Kamis, 2016-06-30 07:32:56

production. Some details on it will be good. Would be good to have an overview of how her roles were in significantly less notable films in the late-2000s...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 68
Sabtu, 2025-01-25 22:09:00

(UTC) Added request here. But in future it should all be done in one Lua module: format validation, getting data from Wikidata (if there are), data comparision...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Grey's Anatomy (season 17)/archive1
Selasa, 2021-11-02 07:05:41

talk:Episode table leaving a message about the space, I'm not knowledgeable in Lua modules to fix it myself, but even if I was this specific template is protected...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 66
Selasa, 2026-01-27 19:01:42

it's not bizarre. Pulling out one of the more relevant comments: "...The Lua extension requires installation of a PHP extension and/or the ability to...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1172
Sabtu, 2023-01-07 14:07:56

Wikipedia:Lua you can use the Scribuntu WikiMedia extension to enable Lua. The sum template seems to basically just invoke the Lua math module's sum function...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 125
Minggu, 2025-01-26 22:53:42

some don't. The move of complex templates to Lua modules is the same; some editors choose to learn enough Lua to deal with it, others work on something else...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 135
Minggu, 2024-09-01 23:57:59

remains part of the admin toolkit. All admins can edit templates and Lua modules. Extending it in this way seems to be extending it beyond its intended...

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Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020
Kamis, 2026-04-02 15:46:10

proposal can be implemented with JavaScript, but not with just templates and Lua. Readers will thus see the proposals change order once after the page loads...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive955
Minggu, 2026-04-05 20:50:53

discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. This Lua module is used in over 160k articles. Reverts and changes have significant impact...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive954
Jumat, 2026-03-20 04:46:16

problem with Wikidata that needed to be fixed; there was no problem with the Lua code that needed to be fixed; there was no problem with Template:Infobox...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 155
Kamis, 2026-04-16 20:09:29

Moyes (talk) 09:53, 13 November 2019 (UTC) Support (as a contributor to a Lua module supporting this feature). Transclusions keep text up to date and avoid...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1039
Senin, 2025-03-10 22:44:49

don't support that just yet and need to be updated by someone who knows LUA and who is an admin. Other bots have that approval too, e.g. CitationCleanerBot...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive308
Selasa, 2024-11-26 21:17:58

Cunard (talk) 05:43, 14 April 2019 (UTC) @Cunard: If you can write the Lua, then sure. But, I'm not positive that consensus would support including...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 219
Jumat, 2025-09-05 05:48:14

to it. CSS pages work similarly with a specially marked @import, and Lua modules with return require. Anomie⚔ 22:51, 9 May 2025 (UTC) It is a redirect...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1104
Selasa, 2024-05-07 17:58:41

after I added an image, the citations spitted out this error: "Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1 at line 1392: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1023
Minggu, 2024-10-20 00:07:06

who like creating Rube Goldberg machines: vast forests of templates, Lua modules and sub-pages just to display an excerpt which is only marginally better...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 November 29
Senin, 2026-03-09 01:11:48

2014 (UTC) Consider, for example, when we created |alt=, or the Image module in Lua, or added microformats. Each infobox had to updated (except those we...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1015
Jumat, 2026-03-20 04:47:31

It looks like Template:Navbox just calls #invoke:Navbox, which is the Lua module here. These pages haven't been recently edited, though... Hmm..... ~Oshwah~(talk)...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive998
Senin, 2026-02-16 21:30:22

pics have equal area could help. Perhaps some suitable template hacking (Lua module?) could do that automatically. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 05:09, 16 December...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 82
Kamis, 2021-12-16 11:07:07

are many other places in a template a URL might be located. See the CS1|2 Lua Configuration source and search on "url". Since it has a {{dead link}} it...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/2013
Sabtu, 2024-01-06 11:32:30

that will almost certainly be dominated by the juggernauts of Wikidata, Lua and the Visual Editor. Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1097
Selasa, 2025-09-23 22:23:15

which is still true as far as I know). Cheers, and thanks for fixing the Lua module for the light rail Middle river exports (talk) 01:06, 7 May 2022 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 32
Jumat, 2022-09-16 11:16:00

19 August 2020 (UTC) Thanks! I guess, technically there is a way for a (LUA-assisted) template to check if a section exists on another page (even without...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 106
Minggu, 2025-01-26 22:22:50

raising its profile a little. Sometimes a portal, sometimes a template or a Lua module, sometimes a Refdesk or a Village pump forum, sometimes a sound from the...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 107
Jumat, 2024-08-16 02:10:21

then we would need separate "Text:" files, in the manner of separate Lua script modules: Template:Aaa1 - contains a markup procedure with parameters Text:Bbb1...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 111
Rabu, 2025-09-24 02:51:47

links are implemented in CS1 citation templates, we could add a nifty Lua module that takes http://www.youtube.com/ and http://web.archive.org/ link for...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-31/From the editor
Sabtu, 2024-01-06 10:07:45

combination of pages composed by JavaScript/JQuery publishing scripts, Lua modules maintained by Python scripts, and English Wikipedia template logic to...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 77
Minggu, 2023-03-26 11:45:51

2018 (UTC) The location map modules in question, e.g. Module:Location map/data/Czechia Prague Central, appear to be the module equivalent of redirects, so...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 16
Senin, 2022-05-02 10:44:36

Module:Language/data/iana languages, Module:Language/data/iana scripts, Module:Language/data/iana regions, Module:Language/data/iana variants, Module:Language/data/iana...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 97
Selasa, 2026-03-24 00:49:45

might want to hold off on the port to JS (if it's required in the end) until Lua support goes live (tentatively expected to be near the end of this year)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 131
Rabu, 2026-02-18 21:43:00

input validation on ISBNs is without merit, in my opinion. Lua/Scribunto modules such as Module:Check isxn were specifically implemented to solve for use-cases...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 96
Senin, 2026-02-16 06:01:29

extensions or even significant progress towards extensions. I will note that the Lua extension is de facto dead as far as I know, and I've never seen or heard...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2021 September 16
Senin, 2021-09-20 07:10:36

act as introductions to other articles so should only really be a brief overview. There's also quite a lot of repetition in some sections and a few images...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 98
Jumat, 2025-08-29 14:29:53

GPL-only scripts. Another question which came up on wikitech was about the Lua modules which are going to be used to create templates when the Scribunto extension...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 159
Minggu, 2022-06-05 18:23:25

there are some templates which used to use {{PAGENAME}} which now use LUA modules. There are definitely some categories which use {{PAGENAME}} to locate...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 156
Jumat, 2023-03-03 03:22:09

(talk) 15:08, 21 June 2017 (UTC) Seems to me there should be some sort of css/lua magic we could do so only the first instance of the help link on a given...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 189
Selasa, 2022-09-27 03:01:53

interesting, but unfortunately I think that's not possible to do in wikitext or Lua AFAIK. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 18:40, 19 April 2022 (UTC) Restructure...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 41
Minggu, 2026-03-15 01:29:22

need to foster more clever templates, and the new, lightning-fast Lua script modules (searching text 180,000x faster than markup) will enable development...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment/Archive 121
Senin, 2025-10-27 02:54:22

select from list|2=If you have questions, please contact me.|sig=yes}} Lua module I simply state that I'm aware of all DS in my UTP DS/AWARE notice at the...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 64
Kamis, 2025-11-13 06:34:06

weeks. What's the deal with StringFunctions? Is Tim still trying to get Lua to work? Are we still fighting over this? --Thinboy00 @349, i.e. 07:21, 31...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 140
Minggu, 2026-02-22 01:09:43

have spent a lot of time recently deciphering templates (and in some cases Lua) to deduce what inputs would cause those templates to produce the desired...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 42
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:08:06

that we have Lua, it should be possible to make {{WPBannerMeta}} automatically detect whether what is being tagged is a redirect or not. Module:Redirect already...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/Issues/Volume08/Issue01
Rabu, 2017-09-27 20:00:22

ongoing work aimed at updating {{cite map}} so that it works off the Lua module that powers other CS1 and CS2 templates. There are additional parameters...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1152
Jumat, 2023-12-01 17:01:48

two. I don't even know what all that Lua stuff even means. Danstarr69 (talk) 15:10, 17 May 2022 (UTC) A Lua module is a lightweight server-side program...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2019 January 22
Jumat, 2023-03-03 18:57:42

"Prime factorization", which isn't there, but could be populated by a LUA module. "Distinction" column is unmaintainable. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 00:54,...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 70
Kamis, 2023-02-02 06:22:09

templates once the new Lua module Module:Political party was completed. Party data, including colors, is now in sub-pages of that module. See the documentation...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 228
Rabu, 2026-04-29 06:03:21

Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as Module:Itemgroup/list). The Change: Currently, many templates pull electoral...

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Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Default State RFC
Rabu, 2026-03-11 20:31:43

July 2013 (UTC) _Provided_ it works I really like this idea. The module editor for Lua has a feature like this, which I particularly appreciated because...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 38
Jumat, 2022-09-16 12:18:50

sure this can be done by Lua module only. -Piep (talk) 11:34, 1 November 2021 (UTC) You are asking for anchors such as Module:String#L-140? Gonnym (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 211
Sabtu, 2024-09-07 20:58:04

much fuller testing, and the related modules to be fixed. This is a change management problem and templates and modules need a lot more care in implementing...

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Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking
Sabtu, 2022-02-12 17:31:41

Signpost. The tags are stored in Lua data modules and used to generate lists of Signpost articles on the fly. Updating the modules manually would be tedious...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 57
Minggu, 2021-10-03 15:25:20

they are not all the same. I am attempting to remedy that by use of a lua module and a consolidated data set extracted from the IANA subtag registry, ISO...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1143
Rabu, 2025-10-15 00:07:15

which supports Lua, a full programming language. See Wikipedia:Lua. There is a limited number of editors who know Lua and the code has to be on...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1126
Jumat, 2022-05-20 13:02:58

2021 (UTC) Modules depend on Lua, Sakura emad. --ColinFine (talk) 00:03, 5 October 2021 (UTC) @ColinFine Great now Help:Template and Lua Pages enough...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1147
Jumat, 2025-01-17 02:53:39

isn't one that I know of, but in theory I'd assume it's possible with a Lua module. Why do you ask? Bsoyka (talk) 17:48, 28 March 2022 (UTC) @Bsoyka: Just...

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Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2017 January 24
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 23:11:57

talk:Infobox person), the talk pages for the Wikidata modules (Module talk:WikidataIB, Module talk:Wikidata), or in a lot of cases (such as Vasil Glavinov)...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1057
Sabtu, 2025-01-04 07:07:07

2020 (UTC) (Clarification added above) I also played a bit with the Lua String module to try to catch and remove the four tildes if the user types them...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Templates transcluded on the most pages
Kamis, 2025-11-27 16:17:30

3391 Module:Large category TOC 12,000 3392 Module:Large category TOC/styles.css 12,000 3393 Module:Location map/data/Italy 12,000 3394 Module:Lua banner...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 15
Kamis, 2022-12-22 23:32:59

Oiyarbepsy (talk) 02:45, 8 December 2014 (UTC) Hmmmm, how about paying Lua coders? Or paying vandalism patrollers? Or paying vandals? (To "count coup"...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 43
Jumat, 2022-12-02 12:35:13

other similar debugging tools can be implemented at server-side for Lua modules of Wikipedia, by partial submitting, resulting in some HTML windows containing...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 66
Minggu, 2026-03-15 17:37:13

Wikidata is, consider COSI which is showing a not-very-helpful error ("Lua error in Module:Mapframe at line 379: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'lat_d'...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 41
Senin, 2022-11-28 05:32:57

be complex, calling subtemplates such as {{Wikidata entity link}} or Lua modules. However, the complexity is mainly aimed at display formatting; the pure...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 40
Senin, 2022-10-17 13:15:08

could probably be implemented more efficiently with a few lines code in a Lua module (and it would work for an unlimited number of list entries), something...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 10
Minggu, 2025-05-18 21:16:39

map-locator dots). The Lua script Scribunto interface was installed c.19 February 2013, and the wp:CS1 cite templates were transitioned to Lua in mid-March 2013...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2016 April 8
Sabtu, 2022-01-15 12:19:45

the main citation templates (such as {{cite encyclopaedia}} use a WP:LUA module and report errors as documented in Help:CS1 errors it seemed time to pass...

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Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 June 29
Selasa, 2025-07-15 06:46:22

existence of the target; it seems like something that shouldn't need a custom Lua module. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:12, 30 June 2025 (UTC) The above is preserved...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 16
Senin, 2022-09-12 04:50:42

different template. The test of the redirect template is in the "Lua test 5" section. The module currently includes a number of error messages for when the...

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Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor
Rabu, 2025-10-08 10:35:43

This template uses Lua: Module:Bot task...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 5
Sabtu, 2022-06-04 16:20:22

name I've given the framework, Luasóg, a diminutive form of the Gaelic word luas, meaning speed, is supposed to reflect this motivation. A part of the over-arching...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Portals/Workshop
Kamis, 2022-04-14 23:26:50

bottom, which should have excluded it. I also noticed three places where the Lua failed to parse a working link to the article. Northamerica1000's edit summaries...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2022 August 4
Sabtu, 2022-08-13 01:58:23

of ListeriaBot; the fact that the list is generated dynamically through Lua rather than by a bot running a SPARQL query does not improve on the concerns...

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Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2025/Candidates
Kamis, 2025-11-20 10:43:02

of why our policies and practices are what they are. Unless its about lua modules in which case good luck. I think I can bring two things to arbcom. In...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators/September 2025
Selasa, 2025-09-30 07:52:58

am also a template editor, and can tackle complicated templates and Lua modules. Support - I have interacted with Hawkeye7 on various matters in the...

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Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Dec 2015
Selasa, 2023-02-14 05:15:31

what happened - Lua error in Module:Location_map/multi at line 13: Unable to find the specified location map definition. Neither "Module:Location map/data/Counties...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 59
Senin, 2023-01-30 19:52:36

April 2014 (UTC) In point of fact, they didn't render correctly in the pre-Lua cite templates either. Most were placed by Rich Farmbrough (talk · contribs)...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 71
Minggu, 2023-01-29 02:35:38

(TALK PAGE) 23:22, 11 May 2016 (UTC) Y Done I used a combination of a lua module and AWB to take care of the easy cases one at a time. The rest will have...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2014-06-25
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:55:58

numbers and years On the topic of "Appearance and color" and line-height LUA modules A new section on state owned and/or operated news agencies Are newspaper...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 213
Kamis, 2024-07-25 08:21:14

time between updates of each of the sub-modules, there is always a bit of time during which the sub-modules may be incompatible with each other, for...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2023-12-24
Minggu, 2023-12-24 16:56:46

to the Lua serializer − and similarly simple to incorporate subhead parsing/formatting into the publishing script, SignpostTagger, the module's own output...

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Wikipedia:Tech news/Archive 14
Kamis, 2026-04-09 03:15:04

[38] Updates for technical contributors Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the mw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence...

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Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019/Phase 1
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 13:40:02

section. @Wnt: Your Lua proposal wouldn't work, because Lua (to my knowledge) strips hidden comments from wikitext, and the module would have to load an...

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2014 April 27
Selasa, 2022-02-22 13:59:53

other - looking at their topographic map I bet we can do better with a Lua module, if I can find the raw numbers. No promises though! Wnt (talk) 03:52,...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2019/03
Rabu, 2025-10-15 01:13:09

Fish+Karate 13:42, 5 March 2019 (UTC) @Fish and karate: Having a template use a Lua module with a higher lower protection level defeats the point of the protection...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 229
Minggu, 2026-05-24 22:37:15

programming modules, so I may be missing something obvious. Any Lua wizards able to help? I'd appreciate if someone could take a look at Module:Infobox military...

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Wikipedia:Date formattings/script/MOSNUM dates/bugs
Selasa, 2026-05-19 04:02:03

citation templates, but the harm done is minimal as there is possibility under Lua for metadata to be gathered from infoboxes. As to the removal of parentheses...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 221
Selasa, 2025-09-30 23:06:51

WhatamIdoing, and Novem Linguae were helpful in pointing me toward Lua modules and how taglines are built into the software. While it wasn't feasible...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 225
Minggu, 2026-01-11 10:33:42

Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1027
Kamis, 2025-11-13 17:36:16

needing to edit the source. The best way to do this? Edit the template. I know Lua is needed, but I'm not sure where to go to make this improvement to the template...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 79
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:14:23

use Lua modules. eg. Module:lang/data, Module:GHS phrases/data. This allows for updates to made in a single central location, namely the data module. Updating...

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Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard/Archive 7
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 13:59:04

the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, MediaWiki's web API, the new Lua templating system, and various upcoming MediaWiki features and changes. We'd...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2012-02-13
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:54:22

translation framework might be adapted to work better in the months leading up to Lua-integration (see previous Signpost article for context). The role of Volunteer...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2024-03-29
Sabtu, 2024-03-30 05:38:43

interactive Lua-based graphs are used in more than 26000 articles about settlements and administrative units through https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Statistical...

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Wikipedia:Interface administrators' noticeboard/Archive 3
Senin, 2026-05-25 03:48:18

extraModule ) { : if ( /^ext\.gadget\.[^,\|]+$/.test( extraModule ) ) { : mw.loader.load( extraModule ); : } else { : mw.notify( 'Only gadget modules are...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2013-08-28
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:55:19

added: Automatic syntax highlighting on JavaScript pages, CSS pages, and Lua modules is now available through the CodeEditor interface. The new feature is...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 210
Senin, 2025-01-13 17:23:54

January 2024 (UTC) Yes you can retrieve the image width and height with lua. Module:Multiple image does this for instance. "I'd like to be able to use the...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 88
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:48:36

would be expanding source edit and encourage new users with Wikitext and Lua and also lessons on Youtube about these (these documentations also need video...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 May
Selasa, 2012-05-08 08:50:01

efficient lua scripting (if we can keep the templates unused while we wait for lua). As for why it should be undeleted now instead of waiting till Lua arrives...

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 January
Jumat, 2018-07-06 22:16:18

Kazenga LuaLua – Deletion overturned. The AFD made it explicit that the player could have an article once they had made their senior début. Humbug! 22:39...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 227
Jumat, 2026-03-27 21:45:26

this, particularly for sidebars? What's the rationale for invoking a Lua module rather than just using {{sidebar}}? I don't have a specific goal in mind...

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 August 11
Rabu, 2022-10-19 03:19:01

longer than the Luas has. Nowhere near notable enough to get a page. Now, if you're going for ten years and you regularly cram up the Luas and get news coverage...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2023-08-31
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:59:10

combination of pages composed by JavaScript/JQuery publishing scripts, Lua modules maintained by Python scripts, and English Wikipedia template logic to...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2015/09
Kamis, 2023-08-24 20:54:04

historical archive of how the {{Rfd}} template previously function before its Lua conversion. If you need an edit done to it, I would recommend going to Template...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1104
Jumat, 2021-10-29 11:28:06

Template:Taxobox/core, but there are several other sub templates and modules (which allow you to use Lua code in templates) involved in producing the output, the...

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2005
Senin, 2023-06-19 23:11:53

example of a programming language manual that "clicks" with me is the one for Lua written by Roberto Ieruschamily(sp?) -- are there any Prolog books like that...

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Wikipedia:TemplateData/List
Selasa, 2026-03-31 10:43:38

with UTC tooltip /sandbox User:Aseleste/Templates/Modules/Indexer User:Aseleste/Templates/Modules/Indexer /sandbox User:Aseleste/Templates/NAMESPACE...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2016/04
Kamis, 2025-08-28 23:36:56

protection: Highly visible template – PP template. Will be added to the Lua module soon but needs protection for a while. QEDK (T ☕ C) 06:08, 6 April 2016...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2013-05-27
Selasa, 2023-11-07 07:55:08

140 attendees, the choice of workshops suggest consolidation: Wikidata, Lua (slides), and Wikimedia Labs (slides) are hardly new projects and were all...

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Wikipedia:Tech news/Archive 12
Sabtu, 2025-02-22 02:55:18

of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2018/10
Minggu, 2026-03-01 20:54:19

2018 (UTC) Module:Citation/CS1/templatestyles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Template editor access: high-risk lua module. Frietjes (talk)...

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pppery
Jumat, 2023-10-20 21:42:27

technical ability before being let loose on a featured article, then Lua Modules and basic markup would leave as big a hole in my brain as the hole in...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 75
Rabu, 2023-10-11 00:36:25

will be developing four modules, and we are inviting you to share feedback on outlines for these training modules, which are: Module 1: Preparing to participate...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2022/06
Kamis, 2023-11-09 02:56:05

for updated preview info with cites and correct season and episode lists. LuaOle (talk) 20:50, 11 June 2022 (UTC) Declined – Content dispute. Please use...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2013/11
Minggu, 2024-11-17 07:52:22

{{Convert}} markup-template (500k+ transc's) may shortly be switched to a Lua module. To allow a "compare with old code" option, this template is created....

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/May 2020
Senin, 2020-06-01 06:49:53

"The Apollo 16 Command and Service Modules (CSM) ..." In text you earlier referred to the "command and service module (CSM)" Removed the "s" Hawkeye7 (discuss)...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 46
Minggu, 2026-03-22 15:38:49

January 2023 (UTC) @Aymatth2, @Kusma, @MSGJ, @Piotrus: I was working on a WP:Lua-based solution to global quality assessments. And hopefully, I'll be providing...

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2015/07
Minggu, 2026-02-08 23:53:51

the other two templates mentioned here to template protection (and the Lua module as well, which I almost did when I semi'd it several days ago). The transclusion...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1288
Kamis, 2026-04-02 02:59:25

Template:IMDb name, about moving the template's logic to a Lua Module. I have already made a Lua implementation to suggest, which has already been, slightly...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Recognized content
Minggu, 2026-05-24 03:34:33

Low-power wide-area network LowRISC Lp0 on fire LRC (file format) Ls Lsjbot Lua LuaJIT Luanti Luau (programming language) Lubuntu Lucid (programming language)...

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Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive 2014 2
Minggu, 2023-10-15 20:03:30

system would really benefit from a modern re-write, entirely from scratch in Lua, but I don't know how to do that, and there are relatively few volunteers...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1198
Senin, 2023-09-04 13:14:31

August 2023 (UTC)  Fucked up again, I added it to the module, and it gave error Lua error in Module:Example at line 38: attempt to concatenate global 'num_apples'...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2025-01-15
Jumat, 2025-02-07 20:21:33

slideshow ← 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 → Anubis mask made from cartonnage (view lua module) 00 A core use-case for interactive content is to show content that simply...

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 87
Selasa, 2026-04-14 04:57:00

some sort in Parsoid. A Lua module invocation is supposed to return wikitext that already has any templates expanded. Module:Article stub box, when producing...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/November 2018
Sabtu, 2018-12-01 06:53:18

still needs *attempts to talk a foreign language* to be turned into a lua module or something? Paging Maproom ‑ Iridescent 19:26, 21 October 2018 (UTC)...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/August 2022
Kamis, 2022-09-01 02:59:23

several hundred Lua errors; every single citation has an error message attached to it. The first one, for Note [a], is " Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 66
Selasa, 2026-01-20 10:47:44

this Lua module essentially the same thing? It doesn't look like it's using the API, and is just parsing the wikitext, but I'm not well versed in Lua to...

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Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Discussion phase
Senin, 2026-04-20 04:38:29

above and beyond the normal clerical tasks. For instance, he create two Lua modules to automatically count arbitrators' votes. (It was 2024 and we were still...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/November 2021
Selasa, 2021-11-30 19:25:42

talk:Episode table leaving a message about the space, I'm not knowledgeable in Lua modules to fix it myself, but even if I was this specific template is protected...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 221
Selasa, 2025-08-19 19:43:40

scores and historical population data graphs as well. I'm wondering if lua modules will help with this. GalStar (talk) 05:04, 18 June 2025 (UTC) The latest...

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log/July 2015
Sabtu, 2015-08-01 06:53:25

authors are. StringTheory11 (t • c) 23:32, 3 June 2015 (UTC) I checked the lua module for this, and there is no easy work around as I thought there might be...

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Wikipedia:Articles for creation/2006-09-05
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 20:53:56

by followers: Daniel Day Luas MySpace Group At its core the DDL two main conditions - firstly, that it takes place on the Luas (or rather in pubs frequented...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 222
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 09:41:21

selected. [9] Updates for technical contributors Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1226
Kamis, 2024-06-20 02:19:11

nowiki'd it. Please see WP:SIG#NT, which says Transclusions of templates, Lua modules, parser functions, and TemplateStyles in signatures (like those which...

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Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/WPC 046 dump
Selasa, 2026-05-12 06:08:22

]], ]], ]], ]], ]], ]], ]], ]], ]], ]], ]] Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.: ]] Lua Getsinger: ]], ]], ]], ]], ]] Luamanuvao Katalaina Sapolu: ]] Luba, Abra:...

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Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive 2013 12
Jumat, 2025-11-21 01:43:20

just clone the templates in userspace. I'm not certain if that works for Lua templates. If it doesn't, you can still create parallel templates with new...

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Wikipedia:Historical archive/Logs/Deletion log/August 2004 (2)
Kamis, 2024-07-18 05:12:05

(content was: 'the crusades are so gay') 02:44, 23 Aug 2004 Stan Shebs deleted "Lua" (unnecessary dab page) 02:13, 23 Aug 2004 Stan Shebs deleted "Smalltalk"...

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Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests/Archive 126
Selasa, 2025-09-23 19:24:34

error I get is "Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 469: Unable to find the specified location map definition. Neither "Module:Location map/data/Columbus"...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 73
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 02:14:59

MediaWiki:Gadget-Twinkle.js), as well as some Lua functions that don't directly render text (such as Module:Yesno). I see the primary benefit of adopting...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 203
Jumat, 2024-10-18 02:11:16

just did! — xaosflux Talk 15:58, 10 February 2023 (UTC) Fix this: Lua error in Module:Type_in_location at line 64: assign to undeclared variable 'args'...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1270
Minggu, 2025-11-16 02:27:48

the location map modules should not be in the category Category:Maps of Sweden? They are already in Category:Sweden location map modules, but I thought...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 75
Rabu, 2026-01-07 02:08:29

Discussions of redirects are qualitatively different to discussions about lua modules with very little overlap between them for example. Thryduulf (talk) 01:06...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1181
Rabu, 2026-04-01 22:38:11

keep enconuting a Lua error in Module:Adjacent_stations at line 237: Unknown line "KA"? I have added the updated code to both Module:Adjacent stations/Hellenic...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1223
Jumat, 2026-01-23 07:16:55

as you can see I keep getting a Lua error, informing me that the Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Adjacent stations/CFFH' not found...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archive 75
Senin, 2025-12-15 20:34:02

a Lua Scribunto module, if even possible. Or do i have to pass the values as args in {{#invoke:module_name|___}}. I am new to Wikipedia Lua Modules, and...

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Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests/Archive 131
Minggu, 2022-05-01 08:26:20

data I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Graph:Stacked) Lua error in Module:Chart at line 301: bad argument #32 to 'max' (number expected, got...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 72
Senin, 2025-11-17 01:58:25

serves multiple purposes (using helper templates or by implementing it in Lua), possibly saving maintenance costs, but it adds complexity, adding maintenance...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Article alerts/Archive 15
Kamis, 2026-02-05 13:10:53

Stanford on 30 Jul 2025 28 Jul 2025 – Draft:Modules (C++) submitted for AfC by 24.50.56.74 was moved to Modules (C++) by Caleb Stanford on 29 Jul 2025 29...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1204
Selasa, 2023-11-07 13:22:16

I think so. First of all, we have Lua modules that can be invoked by templates, but even if we were to not use Lua, we have these conditional templates...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 52
Sabtu, 2023-11-18 12:48:38

Lua_freaking_out_at_Comparison_of_web_browsers. —Kusma (talk) 11:13, 26 September 2023 (UTC) In answer to the OP's question, Module:WikidataIB...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1200
Senin, 2023-09-25 13:32:19

08:11, 11 September 2023 (UTC) Hi, Dinesh. Convert uses a module written in Lua, and Lua's tonumber() is likely limited to 0–9,A-Z. It appears Gujarati...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1239
Minggu, 2025-10-19 11:32:05

Module:Sandbox/பொதுஉதவி பொதுஉதவி (talk) 06:05, 31 October 2024 (UTC) Hello, @பொதுஉதவி, and welcome to the Teahouse. I know almost nothing about Lua,...

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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archive 83
Kamis, 2026-06-04 20:34:26

(talk) 16:32, 15 May 2026 (UTC) When making an array of entries in a Lua data module, is there a way to make something synonymous to avoid duplication?...

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Software/Article alerts/Archive 12
Kamis, 2026-02-05 13:10:45

was closed; discussion 21 Dec 2025 – Category:Free software programmed in Lua (programming language) CfDed by Deltaspace42 was closed; discussion 22 Dec...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1234
Rabu, 2025-03-19 04:27:18

themselves no, templates do not write data. You can use templates to run Lua but I don't think that's what you're asking. Somebody has created The Wikipedia...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1286
Selasa, 2026-03-24 12:10:23

this. WP:CUSTOMSIG/P says Do not use images, transcluded templates, Lua modules, parser functions, TemplateStyles or external links in your signature...

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Wikipedia:Dashboard/Requested edits
Selasa, 2026-03-10 14:59:51

2023-06-26: "shouldn't exist without good reason, some portable modules are checking this" Module:Location map (request) 2026-03-22 12:25 Template-protected...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1189
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 09:51:35

just to ensure that high-risk, common, and very complex templates (and lua modules) don't get edited by those who aren't skilled enough to understand them...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1175
Senin, 2026-03-02 04:03:52

not even be U5 if the purpose of trying to learn Lua is to develop the expertise to work on Lua modules for Wikipedia. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:39, 26...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1280
Rabu, 2026-01-28 02:38:05

template needs to be updated every year. Someone should really write a Lua module for that, but I'm too lazy to do it. Gommeh 📖   🎮 19:46, 23 January...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1229
Sabtu, 2025-01-25 21:40:28

user script or Module could grab the article and exclude all refs fairly easily, and then search what's left for the pattern using Lua pattern matching...

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Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive355
Jumat, 2025-04-18 23:27:24

protect the module? Template editors should remember that if they're going to convert a widely used template to LUA they should have the new module protected...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 199
Jumat, 2024-05-10 12:47:47

today, most complicated templates/modules are maintained by a few old guards who familiarised themselves with wikitext/lua, a level of familiarisation which...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1197
Minggu, 2026-03-08 19:20:37

tation|CitationClass=web}}, which invokes a module called Module:Citation/CS1. This module, which is a Lua program, is run by mw:Extension:Scribunto (git)...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1222
Selasa, 2024-10-08 07:10:40

thanks Cassopeia ...talk?... 17:44, 20 April 2024 (UTC) it says this "Lua error in Module:Portal_image_banner at line 39: attempt to index local 'title' (a...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1281
Kamis, 2026-02-26 19:45:10

template needs to be updated every year. Someone should really write a Lua module for that, but I'm too lazy to do it. Gommeh 📖   🎮 19:46, 23 January...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 82
Kamis, 2025-07-10 19:25:24

mercator coordinates onto the {{maplink}} basemap. It is now re-written as a LUA module, vastly improving load/processing times, and allowing new features and...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 179
Selasa, 2026-03-03 02:19:36

pages? Templates? Adding data to templates? The template design itself? Lua pages? CSS pages? User scripts? The effect ChatGPT has on itself and Wikipedia...

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Wikipedia:Editor reflections/1–100
Rabu, 2025-09-24 04:46:58

changes. We also need some specialised editors to do things like CCI or Lua work. We do not need hostile experienced editors who have scared away 10...

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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 204
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 21:05:51

links envisaged by WP:EL. I wonder whether it could be replicated as a lua module or something locally? Thryduulf (talk) 03:49, 31 July 2025 (UTC) I've...

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Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1264
Rabu, 2025-09-17 03:16:33

Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 08:36, 28 August 2025 (UTC) References Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 568: attempt to index local 'suffix'...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Uncategorized templates (full)/10
Senin, 2026-06-01 08:25:32

Angeles Chargers/sandbox LostNav/temp1 LostNav/temp2 LostNav/temp4 Lua/sandbox Lua sidebar/styles.css Luding/core Lunar eclipses/central Lunar eclipses/partial...

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Wikipedia:Database reports/Uncategorized templates (full)/7
Senin, 2026-06-01 08:25:29

documentation/language/doc Citation Style documentation/lead Citation Style documentation/lua Citation Style documentation/map pages Citation Style documentation/map series...

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Archives/All old
Sabtu, 2024-01-06 11:40:04

Technology report Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension Jarry1250 New embeddable scripting ("template replacement") language Lua received considerable...

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