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I know, it's the coolest, right? They should have gone with xwm (pronounced "zoom") for the name, though. Searching reddit for "Parsoid" just turns up "parasitoid" wasps for some r…

Funny thing: I was hired by OLPC specifically to implement that book: https://blog.printf.net/articles/2011/06/18/narrative-interf...

A slightly longer answer is that we looked into a number of possible reasons and it's not clear there's an easy answer. Lots of differences between the two setups, and every time w…

It appears that you were probably describing the lexer pass in your description of docuwiki. Indeed tokenization is a very hard problem for wikitext. We use a pegjs grammar for it,…

Yes. We're not there yet, but that's the goal!

There are thousands of integration tests. The "correct" output of the parser is well-known for a given input, and those test cases have been accumulating for over a decade. But the…

If you want to dig through the history some: https://github.com/wikimedia/parsoid/blame/6eb00df3e090b20cc... Is a pretty good example of the porting technique. You'll see quite a d…

I'm on the team. Part 2 of this post series should have lots of interesting technical details for y'all; be patient, I'm still writing it. But to whet your appetite: we used https:…

If you use it, we will keep it up.

Sadly, this does seem to be a limitation of our labs infrastructure. :(

Yeah, the domain setting was leaking between sessions before. Oops. Fixed now.

It's actually a 269-line test case for more serious projects at the foundation: the Offline Content Generator and Parsoid. We're allowed to have fun in the service of the greater g…

Patches welcome!

Fixed!

Accessing Wikimedia content while being Really Really certain that there is no downloadable code being executed, or browser exploits being inserted. Browsing for the paranoid. Here…

Fixed!

Oh -- and report bugs/feature requests at https://github.com/cscott/wikipedia-telnet/issues please. Patches are even better.

See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telnet_gateway for technical details. The technology behind this is used for Wikipedia's Visual Editor, PDF export, and plain text export, so it…

re: find_or_insert http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.8/std/hashmap/struct.HashM... It appears to still have the mandatory copy. (And this is just one example of a pervasive issue w…

Please see http://cananian.livejournal.com/68747.html and https://github.com/cscott/rusty-turtle . Yes, the post is brief since it was written from notes several months after I had…

Sorry, I gave Mozilla about 3 weeks of free work, then travelled to SFO and talked with Rust folk in person. That's a lot of donated time. I was working on another project by the t…

Boehm is far from "fast in practice".

Oh, look, my rant finally got noticed. ;) First off -- yes, it is a rant. I actually had some more nuanced in-person conversations, but those aren't nearly as fun to post. So you g…