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This is the Lua project's to-do list. Here we list templates to be converted to Lua, and other Lua-related tasks to be done.
Templates to be converted
| Template | Difficulty | Notes |
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| Template:Asia topic, Template:Europe topic, etc. | Medium | These templates have a lot of shared code, so one module should probably do for all of them. The country names can be loaded using mw.loadData from a separate data module. It would also be useful to add a custom link parameter for each country, as at the moment editors have to go through and check that all the relevant redirects have been created. It would be much easier to just specify the correct link in the template if it is different from the one that is automatically generated. |
| Template:Automatic taxobox | Hardest | This template may be even more complex than Template:WPBannerMeta (listed below). It has a large number of subtemplates, many of which were created by User:Taxobot (blocked back in 2011). Much of the complexity is introduced by attempting to emulate a recursive algorithm in template code, which could be greatly simplified with Lua. It will not be simple to convert, though. Just understanding the system of templates will require significant effort, and some careful thought will be required about the architecture of the module(s) and data module(s). It would also be worth thinking how a Lua module system could interact with a (new?) bot, in order to keep the taxonomic data up to date. Required reading: Template:Automatic taxobox/doc/gory technical details. |
| Template:Db-multiple | Medium | Calls Template:Csdcheck, which has already been converted to Lua. Otherwise only has one subtemplate. We could probably do with centralising the data about the different CSD criteria, as it is used in a lot of different places and is a pain to update when criteria are added and removed. But this can always be done later. |
| Template:Dts and Template:Dtsa | Medium | The structure of the main template is not that complex, but there are quite a few subpages which could make conversion tricky. This runs very slowly on long lists, so converting it to Lua will win you the eternal gratitude of editors who frequent pages like Wikipedia:Four Award. This has been awaiting conversion to Lua since September 2013 - see the TfD discussion. If you have the time, the best solution would be to create a module for both date-sorting templates like these and number-sorting templates like {{nts}}. I suggest the name Module:Wikitable sorter, but that part is optional.
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| Template:Multiple issues | Medium | Very visible template - appears at the top of 90,000 mainspace pages. Not so complicated, but quite long, and errors would be noticed. One subtemplate.
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| Template:Old AfD multi | Easy | No subtemplates, and not all that complicated. Could do with using a for loop to be able to list any number of AfD discussions, rather than just 10. (There are actually a few articles out there that have been to AfD more than 10 times. <shudder>)
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| Template:Round16 | medium/hard | This could be simplified a lot by using Lua. You get bonus points for extending it to rounds of 2, 4 and 8 as well. 32 and above probably won't fit on people's screens.
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| Template:WPBannerMeta | Hardest | This may be the most complicated template on Wikipedia, although there are a couple of other strong contenders. This has many subtemplates, is very complex, and really needs to be rewritten completely rather than being converted. Needs to play nicely with third-party tools such as User:Kephir/gadgets/rater. There has already been some work at Module:WikiProjectBanner, but progress has stalled as of Dec 2013. This may be better done as a MediaWiki extension - this would allow projects to store ratings in the database, and would allow better JavaScript integration. |
| Template:Val | Medium | Numbers can be left as strings to keep precision for those with many digits. Warning, people are very attached to this template! You should take extra care to ensure it's a one-to-one conversion. Basic work and preliminary structuring is done at Module:Val. |
| Template:Album ratings | Easy? | The most of the code could be got from the video game reviews module. |
Other tasks
- Expand Help:Lua for beginners and better integrate it with the project help page.
- Update the documentation of the templates that are based on Module:Message box to reflect the new parameters.
- What templates are these? A search didn't help.--Qgil (talk) 00:39, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
- The ones listed at the top of the module documentation. I should probably do this myself, though, as it won't take that long and I already know how the code works. — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ♪ talk ♪ 04:27, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
- What templates are these? A search didn't help.--Qgil (talk) 00:39, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
- Make Module:Coordinates use a centralised configuration page/table so that it can be easily internationalised.
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