EMWCon Spring 2017/Embracing Scribunto

I want to talk to you about the management of entity classes. Lets assume, the class is already designed and ready to be implemented in your wiki. What now?

During the last six years I set up a couple of MediaWiki projects and with each one I learnt something new about this topic. Mostly because I made mistakes – some dumb and blatantly obvious – and some not so conspicuous that led to problems later. What they all had in common was, I learnt something new every time: I found a better way for me to approach my next project, I gained a tool or a technique, that made my life easier. And of course I also had more and more complex ideas, I wanted to incorporate in my next project. Which, of course, led to new problems and mistakes.

So, basically I’d like to take you on a journey of self discovery. I tell you things, you know about entity class management, and hopefully some things, you don’t. I like to propose some ideas and confront you with my opinions. And in the process hope, you’ll do the same.