Board Thread:Lua Help/@comment-5068292-20150115153725/@comment-24473195-20150217183541

Dinoguy1000 wrote: I'm aware Lua uses modules rather than templates; I just don't see any real need to make the distinction in casual discussion between people who already understand this. =)

I don't know if Templates is really the ideal place for such materials; if it is, then it's already lacking in them for non-Lua templates, so that shouldn't be considered a sticking point here.

If you think that's what's needed, go for it, I suppose; I don't really have an opinion myself.

Speaking a bit more generally for a minute, I would like to see both Wikia-specific modules and Wikipedia modules that have been adapted to work on Wikia. This would be an extension of the tendency already present to feature two versions of templates, one from Wikipedia and one written specifically for Wikia. Well, I made the distinction because the Templates wikia stores templates, and modules are not necessarily templates, just functions that can be used by pages (which include templates).

I'm also not sure if Templates is the ideal place for it, as that is something the admins of templates.wikia.com should get behind and promote if they deem it necessary.

As far as wikia staff is concerned this  wikia seems to be designated place for lua-modules.

Anyway, I think we've basically hijacked this thread, and are largely off-topic. If you wish to pursue the idea of creating tutorials or adding support for it in Templates, perhaps another thread should be created for those purposes.