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"Hello world"
- Module:Bananas: The simplest possible script: say "hello world". Providing a single function with no arguments.
- Module:BananasArgs: Demonstrates how to access and use parameters.
Documentation
- Scribunto Lua reference manual (Manual for the Mediawiki implementation)
- Programming in Lua (Lua.org manual for version 5.2)
- Lua tutorials at lua-users.org
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
Testing modules
- Module:UnitTests - used to power many module unit tests, which are usually found by the name "Module:(your-module-Sample unit tests for the "Hello world" modules:
- Module:Bananas/testcases – Results
- Module:BananasArgs/testcases – Resultsname)
Wikipedia resources
- Special:PrefixIndex/Module:Sandbox - allows you to work on a set of files within a sandbox prefix.
- Lua (mainspace article)