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This list is completely unofficial, but it reflects MZMcBride's thoughts about what the priorities were prior to widespread deployment of Scribunto/Lua to Wikimedia wikis.

• Support for Lua in mwlib (Collection extension)
• (bugzilla:39610) Scribunto should support global module invocations

• (bugzilla:39605) Auto-categorize Scribunto module pages that contain errors
• (bugzilla:39606) Auto-categorize pages containing script errors from Scribunto module invocations
  • → ok
• (bugzilla:39646) Scribunto needs sane Unicode string support
  • Can use a pure-Lua UTF-8 decoder, like the one in require('luabit/utf8.lua')
  • → mw.ustring allows to treat UTF-8 strings
• os.date() with support for at least "!*t" and "*t" formats; and os.time()
  • 280 thousand pages on the English Wikipedia use its w:en:Template:Birth date and age template, and they all expect to be able to obtain the current date in a broken down form so that they can do calendar arithmetic.
  • Other templates also use the current date and time. See w:en:Template:Indian population clock for example.
  • A Lua program should be able to obtain everything that non-Scribunto templates can obtain through {{CURRENTYEAR}}, {{CURRENTMONTH}}, {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}, {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}, {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}, {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTDAY2}}, {{CURRENTDOW}}, {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}, {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTHOUR}}, and {{CURRENTWEEK}}^[1].
  • → "*t" and "!*t" works. Moreover mw.language allows to get localized object to have local time (and not server local time)
• mw.page.title.name^[1]
  • Lots of English Wikipedia templates have default title to name of current page semantics.
  • Some templates have special behavior depending on the fact that name=title or not.
  • → mw.title included. mw.title.getCurrentTitle() is a table with lot of data related to current page (including title)
• mw.page.title.namespaceName and mw.page.title.namespace^[1]
  • Lots of English Wikipedia maintenance templates effectively do the {{#switch:{{NAMESPACENUMBER}}}} trick.
  • Non maintenance templates use this to prevent including article categories in other namespaces (i.e. docs or talk pages).
  • → mw.title included. Same than page title.
• mw.text.escape(), mw.url.encode(), mw.url.encodeAnchor()
  • Of course, these can be done in Lua. But these encoders are used frequently. The English Wikipedia's citation templates need to URL encode COinS data, for example. A C implementation would be faster than a Lua one.
  • → mw.uri library does this stuff.
• mw.text.tag()
  • Same as the encoders above. This is used a lot.
  • → same
• mw.url.local() and mw.url.full()
  • Navigation boxes on the English Wikipedia need these for their "v·d·e" links.
  • → same
• mw.page.talk and mw.page.subject
  • → mw.title + mw.uri should do the work.
• An {{#ifexist:}} equivalent.
  • The English Wikipedia uses this in templates as diverse as w:en:Template:infobox country and w:en:Template:article for deletion/dated.
  • → mw.title.new() allows to create titles for any page, and to test if it exists or not.
• the string library is broken on strings that come from template parameters if they include some tags (i.e. <nowiki> and <pre>). string functions act as if they can only see the special encoding of the first tag (example: passing "<pre>my string</pre>" to a template is see by the module as a 39 bytes length string (whatever the string content), which is the length of the encoded "<pre>" tag. This also prevent string functions to search or modify the "real" string content. See bug report

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Of course this can be simulated using frame:preprocess("{{THE-PSEUDO-TEMPLATE}}"). But 1. this is maybe not the most efficient way to perform this and 2. a metatable to perform/store this − like for the args table − should be cleaner and would allow future improvements without impacting users code.

• (bugzilla:39609) Limit scope of title-based syntax highlighting
  • → done. Subpage /doc is treated as a documentation page, automaticaly included at the begining of module page. It also allows to add categories.

• Speed problems!

These dates can be later than the true ones, because they are followed by final users.

• meta : deployment of Scribunto to Wikimedia wikis.
• MediaWiki 1.21/Roadmap, MediaWiki 1.22/Roadmap dates of deployment for each wiki.
• Lua scripting/statusMonthly summary of the key stages of development.
• bugzilla list of last bugs in Scribunto
• Recent code review of Scribunto
• Brainstorming

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