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The Lua language has allowed misspelled, or uninitialized, variables to be used in a script which can eventually cause "script error" while giving no other indication of the misspelled name or invalid data.
This help-page, Help:Lua debugging, explains issues of writing Lua script and debugging the source code, to remove errors or improve performance. Because Lua is a "semi-compiled" interpreted language, it does not prescreen for all common syntax errors, nor detect misspelled variables, which are only found at runtime when seeing the " Script ...
The general, non-MediaWiki Lua reference manual can—while being very well written, comprehensive, and informative—be problematic for beginners, because certain features don't work in Wikipedia—beginning with print(), which appears in standard Lua "hello world" programs.
User pages with script errors (812 P) Pages in category "Pages with script errors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,185 total.
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Currently, left-to-right scripts are unmarked, while most right-to-left scripts have direction specified as {{code|lua|"rtl"}} and Mongolian as {{code|lua|"down"}}.]==] function Script: getDirection return self. _rawData. direction end function Script: getRawData return self. _rawData end--[==[Returns {{code|lua|true}} if the script contains ...
Lua is a programming language that is available via the Scribunto MediaWiki extension on the English Wikipedia. Since February 2013, Lua code can be embedded into wiki templates by employing the "{{#invoke:}}" functionality of Scribunto. This extension supports Lua 5.1 as of October 2022.
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 – basic tutorial and pointers; Wikipedia:Lua string functions – string performance considerations and limits