I've been hanging out  in the IRC channel on freenode but there's usually just a dozen lurkers and no action.

In the mailing lists parsoid seems to be mentioned about as often in wikitext-l and wikitech-l - which one is best to ask questions of this nature?

I'd like to scratch my own itch rather than necessarily go after things on the todo list and roadmap.

Basically I'm interested in what parsoid can do for parsing wikitext markup into HTML (or other formats).

I want to use it without a mediawiki install and without an internet connection. I see there is already some kind of support for reading in articles from compressed dump files.

Any suggestions where I should start or where I can hang out to chat live with people who could help getting me involved?

Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)