Gadget - Cargo pagevalues improvement
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
An improvement to the Cargo pagevalues view using just JS & CSS.
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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.
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.
Adventures in caching primary keys
· ☕ 15 min read · ✍️ River
The pattern of store -> query -> store -> query can lead to caching nightmares when working with Cargo or SMW in MediaWiki. This is the story of how I dealt with one.
Highlighting disambiguations
· ☕ 29 min read · ✍️ River
Disambiguations are typically somewhat user-unfriendly; I describe my method for improving quality of life when disambiguation links do appear.
Determining team members from roster change data: A Leaguepedia case study
· ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River
Managing complexity using Cargo with MediaWiki to track League of Legends esports roster changes.
How to add Cargo docstrings on table pages
· ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River
A post about how to create workarounds in MediaWiki in a reasonably well-controlled manner.
New Roster Changes
· ☕ 24 min read · ✍️ River
An overview of the process I used to create our single-source-of-truth roster change database tables on Leaguepedia.