Style your code blocks with Pygments 📅 Mar 12, 2024 · ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River #mediawiki · #css Customizing your view-page syntax highlighting in MediaWiki
Markdown vs Wikitext 📅 Mar 5, 2024 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River #mediawiki An at-a-glance guide to formatting Wikitext vs Markdown
Send me your wiki-updating scripts! 📅 Feb 23, 2024 · ☕ 1 min read · ✍️ River #mediawiki Contribute to my list of resources for editing MediaWiki with code
Dealing with defaults 📅 Feb 18, 2024 · ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River #tutorial · #mediawiki 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... 📅 Jan 23, 2024 · ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River #best_practices · #mediawiki A common design pattern in MediaWiki templating is to write {{#if:{{NAMESPACE}}|<!-- do nothing -->|<!-- otherwise...-->}}
I don't like infoboxes - EMWCon 2023 📅 Jun 6, 2023 · ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ River #talk · #best_practices · #mediawiki 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 📅 Jan 18, 2022 · ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ River #lua · #widgets · #javascript · #css · #leaguepedia · #mediawiki A simple interface to automatically let users toggle columns in any data table on the entire wiki.
How to find a namespace number 📅 Dec 14, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River #mediawiki There's a number (haha) of ways to find namespace numbers; this is the one I find to be the easiest (plus some bonus options)
Make lots of sandbox pages 📅 Dec 7, 2021 · ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ River #best_practices · #mediawiki Instead of putting all of your code experiments on a single page, make lots of little sandbox pages!
MediaWiki hotkeys (the useful ones) 📅 Sep 14, 2021 · ☕ 3 min read · ✍️ River #mediawiki A list of just the useful hotkeys/access keys in MediaWiki
Comment your closing braces 📅 Jun 1, 2021 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ River #best_practices · #mediawiki This one trick will save you 80% of your wikitext debugging time!
Multi-Instance Subtemplates in Lua 📅 Oct 20, 2020 · ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River #lua · #mediawiki · #leaguepedia Multi-instance subtemplates are common in MediaWiki; when we're using Lua, they can be much more powerful than in wikitext.
Top Schedule 📅 Oct 6, 2020 · ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River #caching · #leaguepedia · #mediawiki · #python How I created a global site banner on Leaguepedia using the extension Header Footer and some JavaScript, but no api calls