mediawiki

Bot passwords & you (& your bot (& you))

📅 Jul 28, 2020 · ☕ 8 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki · #best_practices

What's a bot password? What's the difference between bot accounts and bot passwords? Why do I need all this anyway?

Use cases for Highlight Links in Category

📅 Jun 30, 2020 · ☕ 7 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki · #mediawiki_extensions · #leaguepedia

Highlight Links In Category has a number of incredibly nice use cases; here I give some examples.

Adventures in caching primary keys

📅 Jun 16, 2020 · ☕ 15 min read · ✍️ River

#cargo · #caching · #leaguepedia · #lua · #mediawiki

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.

Popups

📅 Jun 2, 2020 · ☕ 25 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki · #javascript · #css · #mediawiki_api

Here's how I've built a framework for both static and lazily-loaded popups.

Highlighting disambiguations

📅 May 19, 2020 · ☕ 29 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki · #javascript · #lua · #cargo · #css

Disambiguations are typically somewhat user-unfriendly; I describe my method for improving quality of life when disambiguation links do appear.

CharInsert: Why you should "char"

📅 May 5, 2020 · ☕ 19 min read · ✍️ River

#mediawiki · #mediawiki_extensions · #javascript · #lua

CharInsert is one of my favorite extensions. Here's how I made a Lua wrapper for it to create a user-friendly interface for anyone to add snippets they want.

Sublimetext for Mediawiki

📅 Apr 21, 2020 · ☕ 13 min read · ✍️ River

#sublimetext · #mediawiki

The "Mediawiker" plugin makes Sublime the best IDE-like experience for editing wikis, particularly when one is primarily writing Scribunto/Lua modules. Here's how I've set up my environment.