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My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

My #MediaWiki medium heat take on #LuaModules is that we don't make them magic ✨️ enough because most modules are converted from wikitext.

With substitution, Lua allows us to transform any user input into any output we want! So more templates should just accept more types of inputs.

For instance, my https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Годы_жизни needs Wikidata item ID to work but it accepts 1) plain old page titles, 2) wikitext with links, 3) interwiki links, and 4) pasted URLs to Wikidata, and just transforms them.

Mein kleines Refactoring-Projekt der heimischen Infrastruktur zieht immer größere Kreise.

Wenn ich den fetten Server nachts abschalten will, brauche ich 24x7 Ersatz in klein. Dafür habe ich gestern eine APU 1D4 mit #Debian 13 bestückt.

Stellt sich raus, dass ich vor 10 Jahren einen #Datenlogger ebenfalls auf einer APU 1D4 installiert habe, der alle 5 Minuten 24x7 die Zählerstände des digitalen Stromzählers und vom #Wechselrichter in eine Datenbank protokolliert. Ach ja, langsam erinnere ich mich wieder.

Die Software dafür läuft im wesentlichen seit dieser Zeit ununterbrochen (ausser Stromausfällen) in meinem hinterletzen Subnetz. Zum Glück hatte ich damals in einem #MediaWiki dokumentiert, was ich damals verbrochen hatte.

$ grep PRETTY /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 7 (Core)"

Da muss ich dann jetzt wohl auch mal ran...

#EinmalMitProfis

Discover highlights from the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference

https://professional.wiki/en/news/mediawiki-users-and-developers-conference-2024-vienna

* Connecting #Wikibase and @smw
* Simultaneous Editing
* Wikimedia's Strategic Plan for #MediaWiki
* New #BlueSpice Features
* #KnowledgeManagement at NASA
* LLMs in wikis
* Factors Influencing Wiki Success (by @krabina)
And more!

#MUDCon #MUDCon2024 #SMWCon #SemanticWikibase #OpenSource #OpenData

🤩 We are proudly contributing to this year's MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, https://conference.knowledge.wiki/ 4–6 November 2024 in Vienna!
@lozross et al will discus #SemanticWikibase Development; Kolja Bailly will give insights to Linked open data curation and visua­liza­tion with SemanticWikibase, and together with Lukas Günther, a tutorial and hackathon helping you to get started with #Wikibase4Research. @nfdi4culture
#opensource #MediaWiki