Glossary of ambiguous terms
· ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River
Template and Preload are different, as are Widget, Module, and Gadget. Here’s a small glossary
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How to see your template edits in action
· ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River
When you edit a template, you will need to bypass cache somehow to see the effect of that edit on a content page
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
How to refresh cache in MediaWiki
· ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River
Caching can be super complicated in MediaWiki because there are many different types of cache. This article goes over what to do for each kind.
Please use recentchanges
· ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River
The page MediaWiki:Sidebar is powered by other interface messages, use them!
What's up with Variables and Parsoid?
· ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River
What you need to know about Parsoid development as it affects Extension:Variables
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
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.
If {{NAMESPACE}} do nothing, otherwise...
· ☕ 10 min read · ✍️ River
A common design pattern in MediaWiki templating is to write
{{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|<!-- do nothing -->|<!-- otherwise...-->}}
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.
Toggleable columns
· ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River
A simple interface to automatically let users toggle columns in any data table on the entire wiki.