Rewrite Template:Multiple_issues in Lua

completed by: Theo Patt

mentors: Quim Gil, Liangent

MediaWiki templates are wiki pages to be included in other pages. Templates can take arguments, allowing editors to create special types of content like infoboxes, banners, and more. Originally, templates were written wikitext with parser functions, mimicking the functionality of a very basic programming language (but requiring advanced skills to get smart results out of them).

This problem has been solved allowing templates to rely in modules written with Lua, a proper programming language. Now we have many wikitext templates waiting to be rewritten in Lua. Take one and rewrite it!

Template:Multiple issues

This page documents the output. Your template based in Lua should be able to run the same tests providing the same results. Click "Edit source" to see the actual wikitext code. 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.

Create a template at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Multiple_issues-Lua

Create a module at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Sandbox/Multiple_issues

Please report your progress soon and often at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua/To_do

where not only GCI mentors but also other community contributors can follow the progress and help.