Hi Everyone, Just a reminder, this will be taking place in a half hour!
See you there! Kindly, Sarah R. On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:16 AM Sarah R <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm excited to announce the return of *Wikimedia Tech Talks!* Tech talks > are short presentations by and for members of the technical community. Tech > talks are intended to create better understanding about technical topics > related to our projects. > > *The next Wikimedia Tech Talk, The long and winding road to making Parsoid > the default MediaWiki parser > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks#Upcoming_tech_talks> by Subbu > Sastry, Principal Software Engineer, will be live-streamed Wednesday, > February 27, 2019 at 19:00 UTC* > > Summary: > > This will be a talk in 3 (unequal) parts: (a) Parsoid history (b) Porting > Parsoid to PHP: the whys and wherefores (c) From here to Parsoid as the > default. > > Parsoid started in 2012 as a project to support Visual Editing and since > then has gone on to support a number of products (Flow, Content > Translation, Kiwix, and Android app). Given that (a) Parsoid's annotated > HTML output enables clients to infer things about wikitext without having > to parse wikitext, (b) the PHP parser cannot support Visual Editor and > other products, and (c) we cannot continue to have two parsers, it is > inevitable that Parsoid will be the default parser for MediaWiki. This has > been known since at least 2015 but while we are nearer to that goalpost, we > are still not quite there yet. In this talk, we'll talk about what else > needs to be completed, and what the porting of Parsoid to PHP means for > this goal. > > YouTube stream for viewers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQGfuLP9MqA > > During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at > #wikimedia-office > > You can watch past Tech Talks here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks > > If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more > here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Tech_talks > > As always, feel free to reach out to me with any questions! > > Kindly, > > Sarah R. Rodlund > Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> > [email protected] > -- Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> [email protected] *“I am a jug filled with water both magic and plain; I have only to lean over, and a stream of beautiful thoughts flows out of me.” * ― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
