How to refresh cache in MediaWiki
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Caching can be super complicated in MediaWiki because there are many different types of cache. This article goes over what to do for each kind.
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Representing one-to-many relations
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Several examples of video game mechanics that could be represented as one-to-many relations and how to do table design & queries
Introducing the SORCERER example wiki
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Enjoy beautiful mspaint drawings and learn Cargo!
One-to-many tables & #vardefine
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#vardefine doesn’t always play nice with the order in which you need to evaluate code. Here are some solutions.
Ordering a Cargo field
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How can you enforce a sorting order on a Cargo field when displaying tabular data?
List-type fields, for realsies
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What are list-type fields? What *aren't* they? How do I query them?
I stored a boolean instead of a timestamp
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A Cargo field I was going to store as a timestamp but decided to store as a boolean instead
Optimizing Cargo - query 3
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The final of three Cargo queries I recently optimized on Leaguepedia
Optimizing Cargo - query 2
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The second of three Cargo queries I recently optimized.
Optimizing Cargo - query 1
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A Cargo query I optimized recently on Leaguepedia
A Lua module to print all args
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When debugging confusing Cargo queries, a module that just prints everything for you can be incredibly helpful
Setting common match & game keys
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A long story about how I corrected one of the biggest mistakes in my initial Cargo database design from two years ago
Escape item["id"]
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A funny commit I made today