User blog comment:Kirkburn/Syntax highlighting - helping you read and write code/@comment-24473195-20150309213521

Great, feel free to sign-up all wikias I'm an admin of.

I've also got a couple of ideas related to the code editor, highlighted in [http:// http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:6223  this thread]


 * Small faq - I've done this in my wikia by adding a small div containing basic syntax rules


 * Automatically jumping to line error  (Ctrl+g)-   implemented this in my w:c:dev:LuaError Script

I'll be sure to submit them to Special:contact. But I'm just presenting it here to spark a little discussion.

Also, as far as lua is concerned, I think the staff needs to take a proactive approach and promote some sort of hackathon or some mass conversion of scripts from template.wikia [1], possibly even scripts from wikipedia. Or maybe deprecating the old parser functions that are too ineficient e.g. [inefficient pages]. I'm sure deprecating the old API will spark more interest in lua because as the old expression goes, "necessity is the mother of invention".

Finally, could you guys add a sub-forum here for Lua. It really seems like currently lua is an after thought and everything is grouped under the "general technical problems".

Edit: Don't forget to enable it on w:c:dev. Developers neeeed it :)

Thanks again for this update!