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== "Hello world" ==<br />
* See [[Module:Example]]<br />
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==Documentation==<br />
* [[mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual|Scribunto Lua reference manual]] (Manual for the Mediawiki implementation)<br />
* [http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html#P1 Programming in Lua] (Official book/introduction to Lua)<br />
* [http://lua-users.org/wiki/TutorialDirectory Lua tutorials at lua-users.org]<br />
* [[wikt:Wiktionary:Scribunto|Wiktionary:Lua]] on English Wiktionary: contains notes on efficiency and on dealing with Unicode and UTF-8<br />
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==How-to guides==<br />
* [[Help:Lua for beginners]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Lua style guide]] &ndash; standards to improve the readability of code through consistency<br />
* [[:File:WMF Tech Talk 2013-02-28 slides - Scribunto presentation.pdf|"What do converted templates look like?" (slideshow)]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Lua string functions]]<br />
* [[Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling]]<br />
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==Debugging modules==<br />
* [[Module:SimpleDebug]] - It allows to collect and view the values of one or several variables and/or customized labels of several points of a lua program.<br />
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== Testing modules ==<br />
* [[Module:UnitTests]] - used to power many module [[unit test]]s, which are usually found by the name "Module:(your-module-name)/tests".<br />
* [[Module:Example/testcases]] &ndash; [[Module talk:Example/testcases|Results]] - Unit tests for [[Module:Example]] (the "hello world" module)<br />
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== Profiling modules and functions ==<br />
* [[Module:Timing]] &ndash; module to do some simple probing of timing issues, mostly to spot and fix load problems<br />
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==Patterns==<br />
* [[:mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Patterns]]<br />
* [[:mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Ustring_patterns]]<br />
* [http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial PatternsTutorial]<br />
* REGEX (as applied by [[WP:AWB]]): [[WP:REGEX]]<br />
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==Wikipedia resources==<br />
* [[Special:PrefixIndex/Module:Sandbox]] - allows you to work on a set of files within a sandbox prefix.<br />
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