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
· ☕ 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.
How to install Sublime Text & Mediawiker
· ☕ 10 min read · ✍️ River
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
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River
A review of "A Field Guide to Global Payments," including a table of initialisms used in the book.
Ordering a Cargo field
· ☕ 7 min read · ✍️ River
How can you enforce a sorting order on a Cargo field when displaying tabular data?
ShareX image effects
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
How to use ShareX image effects & spam your friends with rainbows
How to use Weblate
· ☕ 20 min read · ✍️ River
A guide to using Weblate as a translator
How to use Dev Tools
· ☕ 18 min read · ✍️ River
Learn how to edit CSS interactively
Surfaces with pentominoes
· ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River
Embedding a grid on a surface doesn't really work, but we can approximate.