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Sublimetext for Mediawiki

📅 Apr 21, 2020 · ☕ 13 min read · ✍️ River

#sublimetext · #mediawiki

The "Mediawiker" plugin makes Sublime the best IDE-like experience for editing wikis, particularly when one is primarily writing Scribunto/Lua modules. Here's how I've set up my environment.

My EMWCon 2020 Talks

📅 Apr 7, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River

#emwcon · #mediawiki · #talk

At EMWCon 2020, I gave one talk and hosted two Create Camp sessions, discussing different aspects of usage of Cargo and Lua in MediaWiki.

The Anti-Thanos Snap That Wasn't

📅 Mar 31, 2020 · ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River

#leaguepedia

The story of the April Fools Day joke for 2020 that I didn't do, and the "Snap" that we may or may not still do.

Gadgets for code organization

📅 Mar 23, 2020 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki · #javascript · #css

The Gadgets extension is a great way to organize code instead of using Common.css and Common.js for everything.

Lua Hooks System

📅 Mar 9, 2020 · ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki · #lua

I document my system of using hooks in Scribunto before removing it from my wiki.

Setting up a global hotkey to mute-unmute a Firefox stream

📅 Mar 3, 2020 · ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River

#autohotkey · #firefox

How to set up a global hotkey to toggle mute a tab of Firefox (for example a Twitch stream) using AutoHotKey

Using the Mediawiki API without coding

📅 Feb 24, 2020 · ☕ 13 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki · #mediawiki_api

Using the MediaWiki API doesn't require coding.

Determining team members from roster change data: A Leaguepedia case study

📅 Feb 18, 2020 · ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River

#caching · #cargo · #leaguepedia · #mediawiki

Managing complexity using Cargo with MediaWiki to track League of Legends esports roster changes.

Fixing autocomplete in Sublimetext Markdown syntax

📅 Feb 11, 2020 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River

#sublimetext

How to disable autocompletion in SublimeText markdown syntax

How to add Cargo docstrings on table pages

📅 Feb 10, 2020 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki · #cargo · #lua · #javascript

A post about how to create workarounds in MediaWiki in a reasonably well-controlled manner.

New Roster Changes

📅 Jan 1, 2020 · ☕ 24 min read · ✍️ River

#leaguepedia · #mediawiki · #cargo

An overview of the process I used to create our single-source-of-truth roster change database tables on Leaguepedia.