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.
Serialization woes
· ☕ 26 min read · ✍️ River
My journey of encoding pentominoes on surfaces into permalinks
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.
List-type fields, for realsies
· ☕ 12 min read · ✍️ River
What are list-type fields? What *aren't* they? How do I query them?
Mediawiker 3.6.14
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
SublimeText extension Mediawiker 3.6.14 release update, plus some bonuses