Hi Andrew,

On 02/25/2013 06:03 AM, Andrew Dunbar wrote:

I'd like to get involved in the parsoid effort.

That is great. We would love to have more people involved.

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

We are all around on #mediawiki-parsoid (subbu -- me, gwicke -- Gabriel Wicke, marktraceur -- Mark Holmquist). Over the last couple weeks, we've got another active contributor cscott (C.Scott Ananian). There are visualeditor folks also hanging around who participate in discussions once in a while. On most weekdays, there is a fair bit of activity, except for occasional periods of lull. I assume you probably caught a period of lull.

So, come around and say hi.

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.

You and Scott have similar goals then since he is interested in using Parsoid in situations without internet or spotty internet as well, if I understand it correctly. In this context, he has been doing some code cleanup, handling some edge cases, and contributing patches.

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

It is defintely faster on IRC, but wikitext-l is good for Parsoid-specific technical questions.

Subbu.

Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)

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