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See you soon! On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 8:00 AM Alexandra Paskulin <apasku...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just a reminder that this talk will take place today at 17:00 UTC. > > Hope to see you there! > > Best, > - Alex > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:19 AM Sarah R <srodl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Mark your calendars! Wikimedia Tech Talks 2020 Episode 6 will take >> place on Wednesday >> on 12 August 2020 at 17:00 UTC. >> >> Title: Retargeting extensions to work with Parsoid >> >> Speaker: Subramanya Sastry >> >> Summary: >> >> The Parsing team is aiming to replace the core wikitext parser with >> Parsoid >> for Wikimedia wikis sometime late next year. Parsoid models and processes >> wikitext quite differently from the core parser (all that Parsoid >> guarantees is that the rendering is largely identical, not the specific >> process of generating the rendering). So, that does mean that extensions >> that extend the behavior of the parser will need to adapt to work with >> Parsoid instead to provide similar functionality [1]. With that in mind, >> we >> have been working to more clearly specify how extensions need to adapt to >> the Parsoid regime. >> >> At a high level, here are the questions we needed to answer: >> 1) How do extensions "hook" into Parsoid? >> 2) When the registered hook listeners are invoked by Parsoid, how do they >> process any wikitext they need to process? >> 3) How is the extension's output assimilated into the page output? >> >> Broadly, the (highly simplified) answers are as follows: >> 1) Extensions now need to think in terms of transformations (convert this >> to that) instead of events (at this point in the pipeline, call this >> listener). So, more transformation hooks, and less parsing-event hooks. >> 2) Parsoid provides all registered listeners with a ParsoidExtensionAPI >> object to interact with it which extensions can use to process wikitext. >> 3) The output is treated as a "fully-processed" page/DOM fragment. It is >> appropriately decorated with additional markup and slotted into place into >> the page. Extensions need not make any special efforts (aka strip state) >> to >> protect it from the parsing pipeline. >> >> In this talk, we will go over the draft Parsoid API for extensions [2] and >> the kind of changes that would need to be made. While in this initial >> stage, we are primarily targeting extensions that are deployed on the >> Wikimedia wikis, eventually, all MediaWiki extensions that use parser >> hooks >> or use the "parser API" to process wikitext will need to change. We hope >> to >> use this talk to reach out to MediaWiki extension developers and get >> feedback about the draft API so we can refine it appropriately. >> >> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258838 >> >> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Extension_API >> >> >> The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here: >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNNy8ALGjaE> >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1xPkERWCM >> >> During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at >> #wikimedia-office >> >> You can browse 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 >> >> Kindly, >> >> Sarah R. Rodlund >> Senior Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> >> srodl...@wikimedia.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Alex Paskulin > Technical Writer > Wikimedia Foundation > -- Alex Paskulin Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
