Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday, February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including English Wikipedia.
Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the wikis. Those notifications and general communications listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Lua
This is a really exciting deployment for the projects. We're really looking forward to seeing the great things that people do with this, and looking forward to making editing and previewing more responsive for template-heavy pages.
Rob
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Rob Lanphier [email protected] wrote:
Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday, February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including English Wikipedia.
Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the wikis. Those notifications and general communications listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Lua
I didn't see it in the docs above, so thought I'd ask... Is this going to include rollout of the CodeEditor extension, or will that be done separately?
This is a really exciting deployment for the projects. We're really looking forward to seeing the great things that people do with this, and looking forward to making editing and previewing more responsive for template-heavy pages.
Rob
This is exciting! Do we have plans for further measurement when it comes to Lua's impact on page load times/publishing any results so far? In addition to the general benefit of not having to program using wikitext/parser functions, I seem to remember the performance improvements being the big selling point of Scribunto.
Best of luck on the launch,
Hi Steven,
Thanks for the encouragement! Comments inline:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Steven Walling [email protected] wrote:
I didn't see it in the docs above, so thought I'd ask... Is this going to include rollout of the CodeEditor extension, or will that be done separately?
That's a good question. My initial instinct is to say "just Scribunto/Lua", but follow that closely with a CodeEditor deployment very soon. Tim may have something else in mind for this, though, so he may correct me.. Is there any reason you're aware of not to deploy CodeEditor as well? Any reason why we should avoid deploying Scribunto without CodeEditor?
This is exciting! Do we have plans for further measurement when it comes to Lua's impact on page load times/publishing any results so far? In addition to the general benefit of not having to program using wikitext/parser functions, I seem to remember the performance improvements being the big selling point of Scribunto.
Tim did some initial benchmarks which showed a pretty marked improvement with the Cite template: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua_scripting/Benchmarking
The cluster impact is going to be pretty modest (possibly unmeasurable at this point) but will have a positive impact once templates are converted to Lua.
Rob
Thank you Rob for the news. Would it be possible to include other wikis on the 18th trial? I'd like to add it.wikisource, we can easily reach consensus in these 2 days. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Aubrey
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Rob Lanphier [email protected] wrote:
Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday, February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including English Wikipedia.
Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the wikis. Those notifications and general communications listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Lua
This is a really exciting deployment for the projects. We're really looking forward to seeing the great things that people do with this, and looking forward to making editing and previewing more responsive for template-heavy pages.
Rob
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
2013/2/15 Rob Lanphier [email protected]:
Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday, February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including English Wikipedia.
Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the wikis. Those notifications and general communications listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Lua
This is a really exciting deployment for the projects. We're really looking forward to seeing the great things that people do with this, and looking forward to making editing and previewing more responsive for template-heavy pages.
Rob
Hi Rob, I've got a question.
As of now, we write templates and we put data into them, article by article - but this is going to change during 2013, with the implementation of Wikidata, since we'll put data in the common repo and then just call them on local projects.
Is this new prog language going to affect this? I mean, will it help us to write new templates which will call those data more easily?
Thanks,
The way it looks is just awesome! Waiting for the next deployment plans. Some projects are seeking proper string functions for years (among all other things)! :)
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Rob Lanphier [email protected] wrote:
Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday, February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including English Wikipedia.
Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the wikis. Those notifications and general communications listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Lua
This is a really exciting deployment for the projects. We're really looking forward to seeing the great things that people do with this, and looking forward to making editing and previewing more responsive for template-heavy pages.
Rob
Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
We saw that things went well with the first rollout to several Wikipedias, so we're planning on giving this capability to ALL Wikipedias starting on March 13th. This is an initial notification of that date; volunteer Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) will be communicating more with you, developing a FAQ, and so on.
We need your help to gather together or point to lists or categories of templates on your wikis that need converting, so that on the 13th, volunteers can get started right away! Jan is happy to work with you about that.
best, Sumana Harihareswara
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Lua rollout to en.wikipedia.org and a few others Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:33:28 -0800 From: Rob Lanphier [email protected] Reply-To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects [email protected] To: Wikimedia developers [email protected], [email protected]
Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday, February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including English Wikipedia.
Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the wikis. Those notifications and general communications listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Lua
This is a really exciting deployment for the projects. We're really looking forward to seeing the great things that people do with this, and looking forward to making editing and previewing more responsive for template-heavy pages.
Rob
_______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
Reminder: this is happening today.
If you have questions about how to convert existing templates to Lua (or how to create new ones), we'll be holding two support sessions on IRC next week: one on Wednesday http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=02&min=00&... (for Oceania, Asia & America) and one on Friday http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&... (for Europe, Africa & America); see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for details.
If you can't make it, you can also get help at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Lua_scripting
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Sumana Harihareswara [email protected] wrote:
We saw that things went well with the first rollout to several Wikipedias, so we're planning on giving this capability to ALL Wikipedias starting on March 13th. This is an initial notification of that date; volunteer Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) will be communicating more with you, developing a FAQ, and so on.
We need your help to gather together or point to lists or categories of templates on your wikis that need converting, so that on the 13th, volunteers can get started right away! Jan is happy to work with you about that.
best, Sumana Harihareswara
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Lua rollout to en.wikipedia.org and a few others Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:33:28 -0800 From: Rob Lanphier [email protected] Reply-To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects [email protected] To: Wikimedia developers [email protected], [email protected]
Hi everyone,
We're planning to deploy Lua to a long list of wikis on Monday, February 18, 23:00-01:00 UTC (stretching into Tuesday UTC), including English Wikipedia.
Details here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
Jan Kučera (User:Kozuch) has placed notifications on many of the wikis. Those notifications and general communications listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Lua
This is a really exciting deployment for the projects. We're really looking forward to seeing the great things that people do with this, and looking forward to making editing and previewing more responsive for template-heavy pages.
Rob
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