Lua for MediaWiki deployed on first large MW Wiki

[Peter Jacobi <pjacobi.de@...>]

I didn't know that this project had evolved so far. Here's the
announcement from Tim Starling (generating a hot discussion again):

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-August/062537.html

In the end the idea is, to replace the Turing-complete but horrible
"Template" system of MediaWiki with something easier to write and less
costly to interpret.  Mission statement:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto

Peter