Board Thread:Lua Help/@comment-24473195-20140814161206/@comment-4522253-20140814205755

I was unclear. Lua is a fully developed programming language used for lots of things, far beyond the scope of MediaWiki. In the Wikia sense, though, Lua is referring to use of the Scribunto extension for templating using the Lua extension. What you are referring to in your entrybot example is an application extension that is written in Lua for something completely unrelated to Scribunto or MediaWiki. It's not just Wikia that's restraining it. Those kind of functions are not possible for the Lua implementation on MediaWiki (which has been in place on Wikipedia, for example, for some time).