This is a blog post I wrote last week about how to do something slightly horrifying in MediaWiki. It's not possible on Wikipedia itself since Wikipedia doesn't have the Variables extensions, but...
This is a blog post I wrote last week about how to do something slightly horrifying in MediaWiki. It's not possible on Wikipedia itself since Wikipedia doesn't have the Variables extensions, but most third-party hosts do. Even if you don't write MediaWiki code frequently, you might still enjoy the slight horrible-ness of all of this.
(note: normally I wouldn't have posted this to Tildes since I think there isn't THAT much relevance for people here, but with so much discussion about Tildes slowly fading out of existence I'm going to post my content a bit more often so that I'm helping to counteract that. If people find this uninteresting or want me to stop, I won't take it badly!! But, I would also encourage other members to have the same attitude with their own OC blog posts etc.)
This is a blog post I wrote last week about how to do something slightly horrifying in MediaWiki. It's not possible on Wikipedia itself since Wikipedia doesn't have the Variables extensions, but most third-party hosts do. Even if you don't write MediaWiki code frequently, you might still enjoy the slight horrible-ness of all of this.
(note: normally I wouldn't have posted this to Tildes since I think there isn't THAT much relevance for people here, but with so much discussion about Tildes slowly fading out of existence I'm going to post my content a bit more often so that I'm helping to counteract that. If people find this uninteresting or want me to stop, I won't take it badly!! But, I would also encourage other members to have the same attitude with their own OC blog posts etc.)