Extension:Scribunto/Deployment priorities

This list is completely unofficial, but it reflects MZMcBride's thoughts about what the priorities were prior to widespread deployment of Scribunto/Lua to Wikimedia wikis.

Must have edit

  • Support for Lua in mwlib (Collection extension)
  • (bugzilla:39610) Scribunto should support global module invocations

Should have edit

  • (bugzilla:39605) Auto-categorize Scribunto module pages that contain errors
  • (bugzilla:39606) Auto-categorize pages containing script errors from Scribunto module invocations
    • → ok
  • (bugzilla:39646) Scribunto needs sane Unicode string support
    • Can use a pure-Lua UTF-8 decoder, like the one in require('luabit/utf8.lua')
    • mw.ustring allows to treat UTF-8 strings
  • os.date() with support for at least "!*t" and "*t" formats; and os.time()
    • 280 thousand pages on the English Wikipedia use its w:en:Template:Birth date and age template, and they all expect to be able to obtain the current date in a broken down form so that they can do calendar arithmetic.
    • Other templates also use the current date and time. See w:en:Template:Indian population clock for example.
    • A Lua program should be able to obtain everything that non-Scribunto templates can obtain through {{CURRENTYEAR}}, {{CURRENTMONTH}}, {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}, {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}, {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTDAY2}}, {{CURRENTDOW}}, {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}, {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTHOUR}}, and {{CURRENTWEEK}}[1].
    • → "*t" and "!*t" works. Moreover mw.language allows to get localized object to have local time (and not server local time)
  • mw.page.title.name[1]
    • Lots of English Wikipedia templates have default title to name of current page semantics.
    • Some templates have special behavior depending on the fact that name=title or not.
    • mw.title included. mw.title.getCurrentTitle() is a table with lot of data related to current page (including title)
  • mw.page.title.namespaceName and mw.page.title.namespace[1]
    • Lots of English Wikipedia maintenance templates effectively do the {{#switch:{{NAMESPACENUMBER}}}} trick.
    • Non maintenance templates use this to prevent including article categories in other namespaces (i.e. docs or talk pages).
    • mw.title included. Same than page title.
  • mw.text.escape(), mw.url.encode(), mw.url.encodeAnchor()
    • Of course, these can be done in Lua. But these encoders are used frequently. The English Wikipedia's citation templates need to URL encode COinS data, for example. A C implementation would be faster than a Lua one.
    • mw.uri library does this stuff.
  • mw.text.tag()
    • Same as the encoders above. This is used a lot.
    • → same
  • mw.url.local() and mw.url.full()
    • Navigation boxes on the English Wikipedia need these for their "v·d·e" links.
    • → same
  • mw.page.talk and mw.page.subject
    • mw.title + mw.uri should do the work.
  • An {{#ifexist:}} equivalent.
  • the string library is broken on strings that come from template parameters if they include some tags (i.e. <nowiki> and <pre>). string functions act as if they can only see the special encoding of the first tag (example: passing "<pre>my string</pre>" to a template is see by the module as a 39 bytes length string (whatever the string content), which is the length of the encoded "<pre>" tag. This also prevent string functions to search or modify the "real" string content. See bug report
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Of course this can be simulated using frame:preprocess("{{THE-PSEUDO-TEMPLATE}}"). But 1. this is maybe not the most efficient way to perform this and 2. a metatable to perform/store this − like for the args table − should be cleaner and would allow future improvements without impacting users code.

Can have edit

  • (bugzilla:39609) Limit scope of title-based syntax highlighting
    • → done. Subpage /doc is treated as a documentation page, automaticaly included at the begining of module page. It also allows to add categories.

Won't have edit

  • Speed problems!

Deployment following edit

These dates can be later than the true ones, because they are followed by final users.

date wmflabs test2 Mediawiki wikisource wikipedia
voir   ➤ wmflabs test2 Mediawiki Scribunto fr:wikisource en:wikipedia
2013-05-13 unavailable version ? MediaWiki 1.22/wmf4 version ? 2013-05-15
2013-05-01 unavailable 3622f82b MediaWiki 1.22/wmf3 3622f82b 3622f82b" ➤ 2013-05-07
2013-04-16 unavailable 581b2306 MediaWiki 1.22/wmf2 581b2306 ➤ 2013-04-18 ➤ 2013-04-22
2013-04-02 unavailable 4374903e MediaWiki 1.22/wmf1 4374903e ➤ 2013-04-04 ➤ 2013-04-08
2013-03-22 53c46561 fixed MediaWiki 1.21/wmf12 53c46561 53c46561 ➤ 2013-03-27
2013-03-21 revert to MW 1.21/wmf11
2013-03-18 53c46561 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf12 53c46561
2013-03-04 7d7b068 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf11 7d7b068 ➤ 2013-03-06 ➤ 2013-03-13
2013-02-20 8ba7c46 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf10 8ba7c46 8ba7c46 8ba7c46
2013-02-18 96615c9 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf10 96615c9
2013-02-04 4c69b13 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf9 4c69b13
2013-01-17 af0f192 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf8 af0f192
2013-01-03 9a5dc93 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf7 9a5dc93
version not displayed
because the bug 36271
without Scribunto without Scribunto
2012-12-11 bbd155c MediaWiki 1.21/wmf6 bbd155c
2012-11-28 54aef84 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf5 54aef84
2012-11-12 c2aa4c7 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf4 c2aa4c7
2012-10-31 396bf79 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf3 396bf79
2012-10-17 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf2 e7dd3e5
2012-10-15 e7dd3e5 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf1
2012-10-07 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf1 303b8c0
2012-10-01 MediaWiki 1.21/wmf1 without Scribunto
2012-10-02 303b8c0 MediaWiki 1.20/wmf12 303b8c0
2012-09-26 27428ca MediaWiki 1.20/wmf12 27428ca
2012-09-17 a2d18c9 MediaWiki 1.20/wmf12 a2d18c9
2012-09-12 MediaWiki 1.20/wmf11 aea0553
2012-09-05 aea0553 MediaWiki 1.20/wmf11
2012-08-27 MediaWiki 1.20/wmf10 ea1347a
2012-05-31 5f5b09e
2012-05-11 first deployment

See also edit