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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
