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:
- Modules marked with
were ported from Wikipedia. - Modules marked with File:GitHub icon 16x16.png were ported from GitHub.
Invocable modules
These 49 modules can be loaded with {{#invoke:}} or a template containing such.
| Name | Description | Category |
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| Docs · Source · Tests | Implement various "age of" and other date-related templates. | Utility |
Asof Docs · Source · Tests
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Creates dated statements and categorizes page. | Utility |
Autochangecat Docs · Source · Tests
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Automatically changes categories/templates after xx days. | Utility |
Autocalctable Docs · Source · Tests
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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 |
BlockMessages Docs · Source · Tests
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Extends MessageBlock by generating block messages for offenses listed in a wiki's MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown. | Utility |
Calculator Docs · Source · Tests
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Easily add arithmetic operations to wiki pages. | Utility |
Cbox Docs · Source · Tests
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Creates lua-based message boxes that has rounded corner and used for notices, adaptable to multiple wikis and styles. | Navbox |
Check Docs · Source · Tests
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Performs some checks on parameters. | Utility |
Csv Docs · Source · Tests
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Retrieves CSV data from a page and generates an HTML table. | Utility |
| Docs · Source · Tests | Automatically creates documentation of a lua module by extracting its documentation markup. | Documentation |
| Docs · Source · Tests | Colors library for embedded color processing. | Utility |
Context-link Docs · Source · Tests
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Creates templates for context-links that can take infinite arguments. | Converter |
Convert Docs · Source · Tests
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Converts different units (e.g. km to miles) | Converter |
Country Docs · Source · Tests
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Retrieves ISO 3166-1 data related to a country. | Informational |
Currency Docs · Source · Tests
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Retrieves ISO 4217 data related to a currency. | Informational |
Dialogue Docs · Source · Tests
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Provides dialogue. | Utility |
Data Docs · Source · Tests
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Allows wikitext to read values from data modules, e.g. mw.loadData().
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Utility |
Datecalc Docs · Source · Tests
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Wrapper for Module:Date. | Utility |
Demo Docs · Source · Tests
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Shows a demonstration of wikitext. | Utility |
Devmodule Docs · Source · Tests
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Invokes global modules (hosted in dev.wikia.com) from any other wiki. | Utility |
DynamicWelcome Docs · Source · Tests
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Extends the functionality of the welcome tool. | Utility |
Existsmod Docs · Source · Tests
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Checks if a module exists (inexpensive). | Utility |
| Docs · Source · Tests | This module provides a library for formatting file wiki links. | Utility |
Feature page Docs · Source · Tests
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Displays a random live article from a list or Lua table (e.g. Module:Top/data). | Utility |
| Docs · Source · Tests | Formats numbers based on some supported locales | Formatting |
GalleryPreview Docs · Source · Tests
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Creates a gallery preview of a gallery page. (e.g. Previewing "Article/Gallery" on "Article") | Utility |
Hatnote Docs · Source · Tests
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Utility | |
I18n Docs · Source · Tests
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Library for message datastores and handling. | Utility |
Links Docs · Source · Tests
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Creates links and changes wikitext when it detects external links. | Utility |
LinkTemplate Docs · Source · Tests
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Creates link templates. | Utility |
| Docs · Source · Tests | Outputs various kinds of lists. | Utility |
Math-colors Docs · Source · Tests
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An easy and portable way to create colored math expressions. | Utility |
Mbox Docs · Source · Tests
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Creates lua-based message boxes used for notices, adaptable to multiple wikis and styles. | Navbox |
| 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 Docs · Source · Tests
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Utility | |
Navbox Docs · Source · Tests
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Creates a lua based navbox. | Navbox |
NavboxBuilder Docs · Source · Tests
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Powerful module to create navboxes. | Navbox |
Pagestat Docs · Source · Tests
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Display basic information on the page. | Utility |
Pagestats Docs · Source · Tests
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Shows some stats about a page, e.g. word, template, table count. | Utility |
Pageinfo Docs · Source · Tests
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Gets information about a page, e.g. if it has a category or template | Utility |
Pretty-pre Docs · Source · Tests
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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.
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Utility |
Quote Docs · Source · Tests
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Provides a quotation. | Utility |
Rslider Docs · Source · Tests
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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 |
T Docs · Source · Tests
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A feature-packed example generator for brace-based wikitext. | Documentation |
Tempnotice Docs · Source · Tests
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Displays a notice or message for XX days. | Utility |
Transcript Docs · Source · Tests
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Creates a transcript or dialog. | Quote |
YearNav Docs · Source · Tests
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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 19 modules can only be loaded with require() or mw.loadData(). See how to load Global modules first.
| Name | Description | Category |
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| Docs · Source · Tests | Provides easy processing of arguments passed to Scribunto from {{#invoke:}}.
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Utility |
CheckTypeMulti Docs · Source · Tests
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Like libraryUtil.checkType, but accepts multiple types. | |
| Docs · Source · Tests | A date library that allows date parsing, and arithmetic. | Parser |
Debug Docs · Source · Tests
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Helps debug Lua modules using console by creating a pseudo frame and other useful functions. | Debug |
| Docs · Source · Tests | Human-readable representation of Lua tables. | Debug |
| Docs · Source · Tests | Performs conversion between Lua and JSON. | Convertor |
| Docs · Source | Reduces chances of errors by preventing nil global variables from being written to or read. | Debug |
Mgsub Docs · Source · Tests
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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.
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Parser |
Side box Docs · Source · Tests
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A utility module with for creating side boxes. | presentation |
| Docs · Source · Tests | Unit tests for Scribunto. | Debug |
Tablebuilder Docs · Source · Tests
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A meta-module that allows creation of html tables. | Utility |
TableTools Docs · Source · Tests
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Includes a number of functions for dealing with Lua tables. | Utility |
Testharness Docs · Source · Tests
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Runs multiple unit tests using data from a table. | Debug |
User error Docs · Source · Tests
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A less intimidating version of the built-in error() function.
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Debug |
Utility Docs · Source · Tests
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General purpose module containing various helpful functions. | Utility |
| Docs · Source | A unit-test framework. | Debug |
Xml parser Docs · Source · Tests
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A library that parses an XML file and converts it to a lua table | Parser |
| Docs · Source · Tests | Function allowing for consistent treatment of boolean-like wikitext input. |