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{{#set:feature description = Lua is used to give template authors more functionality than available through [[Parser functions]]. The debate to use [[JavaScript]] or [[Lua]] was settled in 2012. Lua can be used to analyze data, calculate expressions, and format results using functions stored in so-called 'modules' in the wiki. }} {{#set:feature notes = }} {{#set:feature tests = }} {{#set:feature examples = }} Lua is a programming language that is now available, via the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto Scribunto MediaWiki extension], on the English Wikipedia (and on this wiki). Lua code can now be embedded into wiki templates by employing the "<nowiki>{{#invoke:}}</nowiki>" functionality of the Scribunto MediaWiki extension. See the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.loadData Lua Reference Manual] for methods like <code>mw.loadData</code>. Lua was installed on the English Wikipedia in February 2013, after testing on mediawiki.org and Wikimedia test wikis. In April 2014 it was installed here. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua Since the Variables extension is not compatible with future Parsoid, logic that was formerly embedded in complex templates should be properly written in Lua. There's a page at https://dev.fandom.com/wiki/Lua_templating/Converting_Wikitext_templates with an interesting conversation and critique from River on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/mediawiki/comments/hwpx5w/where_to_learn_about_infoboxes_templates_and/ [[Category:Programming]] [[Category:Wiki]]
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