Style your code blocks with Pygments
· ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River
Customizing your view-page syntax highlighting in MediaWiki
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Markdown vs Wikitext
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
An at-a-glance guide to formatting Wikitext vs Markdown
Send me your wiki-updating scripts!
· ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ River
Contribute to my list of resources for editing MediaWiki with code
Dealing with defaults
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
There are a lot of different things you can mean when you say “default parameter” in MediaWiki. This article explains them all.
If {{NAMESPACE}} do nothing, otherwise...
· ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River
A common design pattern in MediaWiki templating is to write
{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|<!-- do nothing -->|<!-- otherwise...-->}}
I don't like infoboxes - EMWCon 2023
· ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River
I attended EMWCon 2023 remotely again in 2023 and finally gave the presentation everyone has been waiting for: I don't like infoboxes.
Toggleable columns
· ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River
A simple interface to automatically let users toggle columns in any data table on the entire wiki.
How to find a namespace number
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
There's a number (haha) of ways to find namespace numbers; this is the one I find to be the easiest (plus some bonus options)
Make lots of sandbox pages
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River
Instead of putting all of your code experiments on a single page, make lots of little sandbox pages!
MediaWiki hotkeys (the useful ones)
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
A list of just the useful hotkeys/access keys in MediaWiki
Comment your closing braces
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
This one trick will save you 80% of your wikitext debugging time!
Multi-Instance Subtemplates in Lua
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
Multi-instance subtemplates are common in MediaWiki; when we're using Lua, they can be much more powerful than in wikitext.
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· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
How I created a global site banner on Leaguepedia using the extension Header Footer and some JavaScript, but no api calls