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Toggleable columns

river — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:07:12 +0000

A simple interface to automatically let users toggle columns in any data table on the entire wiki.

Optimizing Cargo - query 3

river — Tue, 25 May 2021 22:07:05 +0000

The final of three Cargo queries I recently optimized on Leaguepedia

Optimizing Cargo - query 1

river — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:05:43 +0000

A Cargo query I optimized recently on Leaguepedia

Tournament brackets (part 1)

river — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 06:36:44 +0000

Our CSS-grid-powered tournament brackets on Leaguepedia

Setting common match & game keys

river — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:33:50 +0000

How I corrected a mistake in my Cargo database design

Use cases for Extension:CustomLogs

river — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:33:50 +0000

Use cases for my extension CustomLogs

Escape item["id"]

river — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:59:37 +0000

A funny commit I made today

Non-unique item names

river — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:23:05 +0000

In a recent patch, Riot introduced non-unique item names, and we had to create a system for dealing with this.

Gadget - Line numbers in modules

river — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 23:58:32 +0000

I add line numbers to Lua modules with JS & CSS.

Gadget - Search results new page hotkey

river — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:03:04 +0000

Let’s make a gadget so that Alt+Shift+E creates a new page from the Special:Search screen when a page doesn’t exist!

Gadget - Disable Display Title

river — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 06:07:53 +0000

A small JS gadget to disable display title for wiki editors

Multi-Instance Subtemplates in Lua

river — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:44:14 +0000

We can serialize arguments from multi-instance subtemplates when working with Lua and retrieve our data in easy-to-work-with arrays using simple wrapper functions.

Top Schedule

river — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:25:44 +0000

How I created a global site banner on Leaguepedia using the extension Header Footer and some JavaScript, but no api calls

Your URL bar is a CLI

river — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:32:49 +0000

When working with wikis, you can use your URL bar as a CLI-like interface for navigation, making your life a lot easier and more efficient!

CompoundRole

river — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:50:18 +0000

A bunch of things I did wrong because learning is fun!

How to rename Cargo tables safely

river — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:08:14 +0000

Cargo actually provides a way to cleanly rename tables without any “downtime,” but it’s not obvious or documented how to do this.

Use cases for Highlight Links in Category

river — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:21:53 +0000

Highlight Links In Category is a very small MediaWiki extension that applies classes to links based on the links’ targets’ categories. It has a number of incredibly nice use cases; here I give some examples.

Adventures in caching primary keys

river — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:39:18 +0000

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.

The Anti-Thanos Snap That Wasn't

river — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 01:08:42 +0000

The story of the April Fools Day joke for 2020 that I didn’t do, and the “Snap” that we may or may not still do.

Determining team members from roster change data: A Leaguepedia case study

river — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:55:49 +0000

Managing complexity using Cargo with MediaWiki to track League of Legends esports roster changes.

New Roster Changes

river — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:03:16 +0000

An overview of the process I used to create our single-source-of-truth roster change database tables on Leaguepedia. This post originally was created as a user page on Leaguepedia.