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== About Lua ==
:''See also [[:File:WMF Tech Talk 2013-02-28 slides - Scribunto presentation.pdf|Brad Jorsch's short presentation for a basic example of how to convert a wikitext template into a Lua module (PDF).]]''
Lua is a [[scripting language]] which can be used to analyze data, calculate expressions, and format results using functions or [[object-oriented programming]]. Although some Lua script can be kept simple, for easy understanding, Lua allows complex structures which would challenge a [[computer scientist]], withincluding tables, dynamic functions, and [[associative array]]s where index [[subscript]]s can be words as well as index numbers. Lua also supports [[recursion]] of re-nested functions, so care should be taken to avoid excessive complexity where other users would not understand how to maintain a Lua module. The following is an example of Lua [[source code]] for a [[hello world]] function contained in [[Module:HelloWorld]]:
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
-- All Lua modules on Wikipedia must begin by defining a variable that will hold their