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WP:Lua (talk) Help To do Resources Reference manual

en: mw:, Scribunto Lua reference manual

Documentation

Scribunto Lua reference manual
Programming in Lua
Introduction to Lua patterns
About regex. Lua "patterns" are based on Regex (Patterns are a reduced set of regex).
Help:Lua metamodules: Lua in Wikipedia has several meta-modules available that can make core functions easily available.

Wikibooks

Lua Programming at Wikibooks
Scribunto: An Introduction at Wikibooks

How-to guides

Wikipedia:Lua style guide – standards to improve the readability of code through consistency
"What do converted templates look like?" (slideshow)
Help:Lua debugging – a how-to guide about debugging Lua modules
Help:Lua for beginners – basic tutorial and pointers
Wikipedia:Lua string functions – string performance considerations and limits
Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling – how to write templates that use Scribunto/Lua

Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling/Programmers' Quick start Guide to Lua – a list of essential points

Wikipedia:Comparable Lua functions to wikitext – how to convert wikitext to Lua
Wikiversity:Lua – Lua tutorial from Wikiversity
mw:SyntaxHighlight: <syntaxhighlight lang="Lua"> .. </syntaxhighlight>

Essays on Lua

Wikipedia:Lua articles
User:Dragons flight/Lua performance
Wikipedia:Lua unit testing
mw:User:Sumanah/Lua vs Javascript
Roberto Ierusalimschy. "Lua Performance Tips" (PDF). lua.org.
Wikipedia:Lua speed – comparing template and module speeds (obsolete (because of HHVM))

Module links list

{{lmd|Example}} to produce module links: Module:Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

WikiProject Lua templates

Template documentation can be related to module using {{Lua}}:

This template uses Lua:

Module:Example (sandbox)

Template:WikiProject Lua header – this page's tabbed header

Lua navigation on en:wikipedia

v t e Lua programming language
Package manager	LuaRocks
Ports and distributions	Plua LÖVE Solar2D
IDEs	Decoda SciTE
Applications and frameworks	OpenResty Prosody Torch Tarantool IUP List of applications using Lua

v t e Wikipedia technical help
Get personal technical help at the Teahouse, help desk, village pump (technical), talk pagesorIRC.
General technical help	Browser notes Bypass cache Keyboard shortcuts Editing CharInsert Edit conflict Edit toolbar Reverting How to create a page IRC Tutorial Mobile access Multilingual support Page history Page information Page name Help Printing Software notices Editnotice Special Characters Entering User access levels VisualEditor Help
Special page-related	Special page help AllPages Edit filter Emailing users Logging in Reset passwords Logs Moving a page History merging Non-admin and admin-only page moves Notifications/Echo FAQ Page Curation Page import Pending changes Random pages Recent changes Related changes Searching Linksearch Tags User contributions Watchlist What links here
Wikitext	Wikitext Cheatsheet Columns Line-break handling Lists Magic words For beginners Conditional expressions Switch parser function Time function Redirects Sections and TOCs Tables Introduction Basics Advanced table formatting Collapsing Conditional tables Sortable tables Using colours
Links and diffs	Links Interlanguage Interwiki Permanent Diffs Simplest diff guide Simple diff and link guide Complete diff and link guide Colon trick Link color Pipe trick URLs
Media files: images, videos and sounds	Media help Files Creation and usage Moving files to Commons Images Introduction to images Picture tutorial Preparing images for upload Uploading images Options to hide an image Extended image syntax SVG help Gallery tag Graphics tutorials Basic bitmap image editing How to improve image quality Graphics Lab resources Sound file markup Visual file markup
Other graphics	Family trees Graphs and charts How to create Barcharts To scale charts Math formulas Math symbols Musical scores Musical symbols Timeline EasyTimeline syntax WikiHiero syntax
Templates and Lua modules	Templates Advanced template coding Template documentation Template index Template limits Template sandbox and test cases Citation templates Lua help Lua project Resources To do Substitution Purge Job queue Transclusion Labeled section Costs and benefits Guide to Scribbling
Data structure	Namespaces Main/Article Category Draft File File description page Help Portal Project/Wikipedia Talk Archiving Simple Template User User page design MediaWiki Bug reports and feature requests TimedMediaHandler extension Module Special
HTML and CSS	Cascading Style Sheets HTML in wikitext Catalogue of CSS classes Common.js and common.css User CSS for monospaced coding font Classes in microformats Markup validation Span tags Useful styles
Customisation and tools	Preferences Gadgets Skins Citation tools Cleaning up vandalism tools Customizing watchlists Hide pages IRC Scripts User scripts Guide List Techniques User style Tools Alternative browsing Browser tools Editing tools Navigation shortcuts Optimum tool set Wikimedia Cloud Services Beta Features at MediaWiki
Automated editing	AfC helper script AntiVandal AutoWikiBrowser Bots Creating history HotCat Huggle Navigation popups RedWarn Twinkle Ultraviolet WPCleaner Inactive igloo STiki
See also: Category:Wikipedia how-to Category:Wikipedia information pages Further navigation at: Help pages Administrators Accessibility Accounts Bots Referencing Citation metadata Templates User scripts

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