The Tag That Shall Not Be Named
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
A quick post about transclusion, partial transclusion, The Tag That Shall Not Be Named, and whitespace
best_practices
Please use recentchanges
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River
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If {{NAMESPACE}} do nothing, otherwise...
· ☕ 10 min read · ✍️ River
A common design pattern in MediaWiki templating is to write
{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|<!-- do nothing -->|<!-- otherwise...-->}}
Ordering a Cargo field
· ☕ 7 min read · ✍️ River
How can you enforce a sorting order on a Cargo field when displaying tabular data?
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?
Handling internal data in MediaWiki
· ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River
My EMWCon 2022 talk
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!
I stored a boolean instead of a timestamp
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
A Cargo field I was going to store as a timestamp but decided to store as a boolean instead
Comment your closing braces
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
This one trick will save you 80% of your wikitext debugging time!
How to rename Cargo tables safely
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
Cargo actually provides a way to cleanly rename tables without any "downtime," but it's not obvious or documented how to do this.
Bot passwords & you (& your bot (& you))
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
What's a bot password? What's the difference between bot accounts and bot passwords? Why do I need all this anyway?
Don't use _pageName
· ☕ 10 min read · ✍️ River
Sometimes it can seem convenient to use the built-in _pageName field that Cargo provides; however, _pageName is a metadata field, and you should take care to use it only as such.