EMWCon Spring 2017/Embracing Scribunto
| Presenter | Tobias Oetterer | ||
| Event | Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (EMWCon) Spring 2017 | ||
| Date and time | Friday 10 March 2017, 9:00 AM | ||
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Let’s assume, you want to create a new entity class for your wiki. Furthermore, let’s assume, it is already designed and ready to be implemented. What now?
I want you to take part in the experience I gained during the last years and my gradual shift from the conventional use of templates/forms to an extended system utilizing Extension:Scribunto. I’ll show you how a division of class description and implementation could look like, introduce a way of maintaining a unified codebase, give you a feeling of the possibilities lua offers, when taken to extreme, and finally let you have a first peak how creation, deployment and management of entity classes in a wiki could look like.
Be prepared to be confronted with opinions, see a struggling wikidev learn through failure and expect to be asked for insight into your own techniques.