Thread:Kyletheobald/@comment--20140610154607

Hey Kyle,

I'm not sure if you've seen what is going on over at the Marvel Database, but Wikia Devs have been working there to roll out the Scribunto extension and the Lua scripting language.

We made the switch of their infobox over to a Lua version mid-week last week and, after a few tweaks, we've very happy with the results. Lua dramatically reduces page load times and has much better built-in logic to it.

We've gone ahead and coded and tested on a dev environment a Lua version of the primary character template - DC Database:Character Template and believe it is ready to be rolled out here. If your community would be willing to help us test this here on the live site it would be mutually beneficial - rendering times decreased by 50% on your character pages, helping our servers host your content better while improving your SEO and user perception.

(Note: I have also posted this message on a few other admins' walls, I'm not clear if there is a place where the admins really discuss things on-wiki).

Please let me know if you have any questions, I would like to move forward with this tomorrow or the day after. 