Help:Lua
Appearance
Template:WikiProject Lua/header
Documentation
- Scribunto Lua reference manual (Manual for the Mediawiki implementation)
- Programming in Lua (Lua.org manual for version 5.2)
How-to guides
- Wikipedia:Lua style guide – standards to improve the readability of code through consistency
- "What do converted templates look like?" (slideshow)
- Help:Lua debugging – a how-to guide about debugging Lua modules
- Help:Lua for beginners
- Wikipedia:Lua string functions
"Hello world" demonstration modules
- Module:Bananas: The simplest possible script, providing a single function with no arguments.
- Module:BananasArgs: Demonstrates how to access and use parameters.
Testing modules
- Module:UnitTests - used to power many module unit tests, which are usually found by the name "Module:(your-module-name)/tests"
Wikipedia resources
- Special:PrefixIndex/Module:Sandbox - allows you to work on a set of files within a sandbox prefix.
- Lua (mainspace article)