Notes on "Charlatan" by Pope Brock
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John R. Brinkley is a fascinating historical figure whose biography feels too improbable to be true.
Notes on The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River
Some tables & lists of Wikipedia links that may help you while reading this fantastic book on the events leading up to World War I
What's up with Variables and Parsoid?
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
What you need to know about Parsoid development as it affects Extension:Variables
Book Review - Building a StoryBrand
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
A review of and some notes on "Building a StoryBrand"
Gadget - Copy title
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
A gadget that provides one-click buttons to copy the title or (or pageName) of a MediaWiki page
Style your code blocks with Pygments
· ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River
Customizing your view-page syntax highlighting in MediaWiki
Markdown vs Wikitext
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
An at-a-glance guide to formatting Wikitext vs Markdown
One-to-many tables & #vardefine
· ☕ 12 min read · ✍️ River
#vardefine doesn’t always play nice with the order in which you need to evaluate code. Here are some solutions.
Send me your wiki-updating scripts!
· ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ River
Contribute to my list of resources for editing MediaWiki with code
Dealing with defaults
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There are a lot of different things you can mean when you say “default parameter” in MediaWiki. This article explains them all.
How to install Sublime Text & Mediawiker
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A step-by-step guide with screenshots on installing and configuring Sublime Text with the Mediawiker extension
If {{NAMESPACE}} do nothing, otherwise...
· ☕ 10 min read · ✍️ River
A common design pattern in MediaWiki templating is to write
{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|<!-- do nothing -->|<!-- otherwise...-->}}
Book Review - The Field Guide to Global Payments
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A review of "A Field Guide to Global Payments," including a table of initialisms used in the book.