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This is a list of Global Lua modules with a short description of their usage. Learn how to use them in a short guide here.

Notes:

Invocable modules

These modules can be loaded with {{#invoke:}} or a template containing such.

Name Description Category
Accordion
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Allows users to create collapsible accordions in a page. Utility
Asof
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Creates dated statements and categorizes page. Utility
Autocalctable
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Adds summation/average/min/max values of a column of a table imported from JSON/module/CSV page. Extensible to provide more stats. Utility
Autochangecat
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Automatically changes categories/templates after xx days. Utility
BlockMessages
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Extends MessageBlock by generating block messages for offenses listed in a wiki's MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown. Utility
Calculator
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Easily add arithmetic operations to wiki pages. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests Outputs yearly or monthly calendar widgets. Utility
Cbox
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Creates Lua-based message boxes that has rounded corner and used for notices, adaptable to multiple wikis and styles. Design
Check
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Performs some checks on parameters. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests Automatic module documentation generator using ExpLua documentation markup. Documentation
Docs · Source · Tests Colors library for embedded color processing. Utility
Context-link
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Creates templates for context-links that can take infinite arguments. Converter
Docs · Source · Tests Converts different units (e.g. km to miles). Converter
Country
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Retrieves ISO 3166-1 data related to a country. Information
Csv
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Retrieves CSV data from a page and generates an HTML table. Utility
Currency
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Retrieves ISO 4217 data related to a currency. Information
Data
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Allows wikitext to read values from data modules, e.g. mw.loadData(). Utility
Datecalc
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Wrapper for Module:Date. Utility
Demo
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Shows a demonstration of wikitext. Utility
Devmodule
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Invokes global modules (hosted in dev.fandom.com) from any other wiki. Utility
Dialogue
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Provides dialogue. Utility
Delimited tag
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This module implements {{Code}}. Design
Docbunto
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Automatic module documentation generator using @tag-based documentation markup. Documentation
Docs · Source · Tests This module implements {{Documentation}}. Design
Docs · Source · Tests This module implements {{Error}}. Utility
Existsmod
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Checks if a module exists (inexpensive). Utility
Fallback
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Allows easy translation or internalization of pages in Lua. Utility
Feature page
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Displays a random live article from a list or Lua table (e.g. Module:Top/data). Utility
Docs · Source · Tests This module provides a library for formatting file wiki links. Utility
For
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Creates simple disambiguations. Design
Docs · Source · Tests Formats numbers based on some supported locales. Design
GalleryPreview
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Creates a gallery preview of a gallery page (e.g. Previewing "Article/Gallery" on "Article"). Utility
Hash
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Provides message digest implementations in lieu of mw.hash. Utility
HotlinkVignette
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Provides a template-like method for hotlinking images using Vignette. Utility
Hatnote
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Produces hatnote links and links to related articles. Design
I18n
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Library for message datastores and handling. Utility
Icons
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Displays a string of icons in a standardised format on a page. Design
Docs · Source · Tests Renders a MediaWiki message in the page language. Utility
Japanese
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Formats Japanese translation text. Design
Docs · Source · Tests Automates josa part of Korean postposition process. Utility
Keys
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This module implements {{Keys}}. Design
Languages
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Lua templating and link generation for language subpages. Utility
Links
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Creates links and changes wikitext when it detects external links. Utility
LinkTemplate
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Creates link templates. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests Outputs various kinds of lists. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests Lua module implementing features similar to mw:Extension:Loops. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests Lists Lua module dependencies on documentation pages. Design
Math-colors
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An easy and portable way to create colored math expressions. Utility
Mbox
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Creates Lua-based message boxes used for notices, adaptable to multiple wikis and styles. Design
Docs · Source · Tests Creates lua-based message boxes used for notices, adaptable to multiple wikis and styles. Design
MobileSpoiler
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Allows hidden spoiler text in a way that works on both desktop and FandomMobile. Design
ModularCSS
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Generates modular snippets of CSS code. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests Creates a template for a box displaying multiple images in a single box, as if it were a single image. Utility
Namespace detect
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Meta-template for namespace detection #switch. Utility
Navbox
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Creates a Lua-based navbox. Navbox
NavboxBuilder
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Powerful module to create navboxes. Navbox
Pageinfo
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Gets information about a page, e.g. if it has a category or template. Utility
Pagestat
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Display basic information on the page. Utility
Pagestats
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Shows some stats about a page, e.g. word, template, table count. Utility
Plural
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An alternative for {{plural:}} magic word with language parameter. Utility
PortableNavbox
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Creates simple navigation boxes using portable infobox markup. Utility
Pretty-pre
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Automatically adds a space before each line. Like the pre tag, but allows markup (e.g. bold or italics), transclusions, etc. Utility
ProcessArgs
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Allows arguments to be merged and normalised. Utility
Ref
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Creates Lua-based references, adaptable for all media types and wikis, and with the ability to auto-fill references based on a wiki's local data table module. Utility
Quote
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Provides a quotation, or dialogue box. Design
Rslider
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Creates a random slider with all the images or files used as parameters. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests A utility module with for manipulating strings/texts. Utility
StringConcat
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A simple wrapper for the table.concat of Lua language. Utility
T
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A feature-packed example generator for brace-based wikitext. Documentation
Tabber
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Provides a template to create mobile-compatible tabbers. Design
Docs · Source · Tests Be used to show translatable templates in the language of the current page. Utility
Tempnotice
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Displays a notice or message for XX days. Utility
Timeline
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Generates timelines from Lua configuration modules. Design
Transcript
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Creates a transcript or dialog. Design
YearNav
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Create a simple template allowing for pages with years in the titles to more simply link to each other. Utility

Meta-modules

These modules can only be loaded with require() or mw.loadData(). See how to load Global modules first.

Name Description Category
Docs · Source · Tests Provides easy processing of arguments passed to Scribunto from {{#invoke:}}. Utility
Base64
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Encodes and decodes Base64. Utility
CheckTypeMulti
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Like libraryUtil.checkType, but accepts multiple types. Utility
CLI
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Command-line generator for development & debugging tools. Debug
Config
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Loads module configuration from the global config at Dev:{{TEMPLATENAME}}/config with optional overrides from the local config at Module:{{TEMPLATENAME}}/config. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests A date library that allows date parsing, and arithmetic. Parser
Debug
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Helps debug Lua modules using console by creating a pseudo frame and other useful functions. Debug
Entrypoint
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Provides a template entrypoint for Scribunto modules using {{#invoke:}}. Utility
FrameTools
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Contains a number of functions for dealing with Scribunto Frame objects. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests Human-readable representation of Lua tables. Debug
Docs · Source · Tests JSON high-performance bidirectional conversion framework. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests Lexer for Lua source code. Parser
Docs · Source · Tests Function to allow for loading of multiple modules at once. Utility
Mgsub
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Like mw.ustring.gsub(), but ^ and $ match the beginning and end of each line, respectively. Compare the "multiline" modifier for regular expressions. Parser
Docs · Source · Tests Reduces chances of errors by preventing nil global variables from being written to or read. Debug
Docs · Source · Tests Unit tests for Scribunto. Debug
Set
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Library for creating and manipulating sets. Utility
Side box
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A utility module with for creating side boxes. Design
Docs · Source · Tests Includes a number of functions for dealing with Lua tables. Utility
Tablebuilder
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A meta-module that allows creation of HTML tables. Utility
Testharness
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Runs multiple unit tests using data from a table. Debug
Unindent
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Resets the indentation level of mulitline strings. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests A unit test framework. Debug
User error
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A less intimidating version of the built-in error() function. Debug
Utility
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General purpose module containing various helpful functions. Utility
Docs · Source · Tests Parser for valid XML streams in Lua. Parser
Docs · Source · Tests Function allowing for consistent treatment of boolean-like wikitext input. Utility

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