User blog:JoshuaJSlone/Lua

Hey guys. I'm not sure how much any of you are into programming, but very recently Wikia made it possible for Lua to be enabled on wikis. This will allow for things like faster and more complicated templates, as well as code that's easier to understand by looking at it than some things can be now. Here's a bit of what higher-ups at Wikia have to say if any of you want to look into it more:

''Our Lua documentation currently lives on our Wikia Developer's Wiki here: http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Lua_templating. A good place to start would probably be working on an infobox, using the InfoboxBuilder tool bundled with Lua: http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Lua_templating/InfoboxBuilder''

We have also set up a Lua-specific forum on the DEV Wiki here: http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Board:Lua_Help

In addition, over the coming weeks we will be adding live examples and Chat office hours to DEV Wiki to help you branch more into Lua.

I myself have only used Lua a very little before, but there's enough similarity among most programming languages that I was able to get results from dabbling pretty quickly today. I'm not yet to the point of having something truly useful for the site, though I've got an idea or two. However, my latest simple test for reading from a page as well as search/replace is pretty amusing. Try putting

or

or some other combination of

on a page, hit Preview, and see what happens.