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{{ping|Mr. Stradivarius}} Per [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.loadJsonData this], it's now possible to have Lua modules load JSON rather than Lua tables. I think this would be a lot better to work with (i.e. all utilities wouldn't have to constantly serialize and deserialize Lua tables using the idiosyncratic whitespace/indentation/etc format). Additionally, a page with the JSON content model would be constrained and sanitized by MediaWiki, rather than a Lua table which can just have wrong stuff in it etc. I would like to write some more utilities to work with these indices but the Lua tables are kind of an awkward sticking point. What would the procedure be for converting them? I would be able to write patches for the Signpost tagger and Wegweiser (and may be able to help with the Lua module itself). <b style="font-family: monospace; color:#E35BD8">[[User:JPxG|<b style="color:#029D74">jp</b>]]×[[Special:Contributions/JPxG|<b style="color: #029D74">g</b>]][[User talk:JPxG|🗯️]]</b> 23:52, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
:{{ping|JPxG}} I guess you could do that, but you would still have the issue of making sure the JSON is indented and sorted the same way across all tools that write to the data pages. Just switching to JSON doesn't guarantee that all JSON parsers format everything the exact same way. Also, you can't save syntactically incorrect Lua pages; Mediawiki won't allow it. So I don't think there is a real difference between Lua and JSON there. One pitfall is that you would have to change the content model to JSON when creating the data pages, which as far as I'm aware only admins can do. This would mean that WegweiserBot would have to become an admin bot, which would require another BRFA. Also, non-admin users would no longer be able to use SignpostTagger to tag pages for which the data page is not yet created; they would have to wait until either WegweiserBot or an admin user changes the content model. All in all, to me this sounds like a solution looking for a problem. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 08:47, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
::My thinking is mostly that converting the JSON to Lua tables adds another dependency for every program that puts things into or out of the indices; JSON is a pretty widely used standard and there's lots of utilities available for parsing it. It just seems like it's more straightforwardly compatible with what exists now, and more forward-compatible with whatever the future brings.
::As for the content models, I hadn't thought about that. It is true that [[WP:TEMPLATEEDITOR|TE]]s can change content models, but that's still not very great. Fortunately my RfA was successful so I'd be happy to manually pre-create and set content models for blank JSON indices up to, say, 2060 or so ;) <b style="font-family: monospace; color:#E35BD8">[[User:JPxG|<b style="color:#029D74">jp</b>]]×[[Special:Contributions/JPxG|<b style="color: #029D74">g</b>]][[User talk:JPxG|🗯️]]</b> 02:41, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
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