Hi Scott,

Thank you so much for your reply and offer to help with Parsoid. I used DizzyLogic as an easy parser to get Wikipedia articles' content stripped off the wiki markup. The results were in plain text files. I used it to parse the whole English and Arabic Wikipedia dumps back in January. It was easy to use because my coding knowledge is limited.
I read the link you kindly provided about Parsoid and I think it can help me with parsing. However, I'm not sure how to start on testing this. 

Thank you :)

Best,
Reem

On 11 November 2016 at 19:55, C. Scott Ananian <cananian@wikimedia.org> wrote:

It was removed from that article recently (19 Oct 2016: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Alternative_parsers&type=revision&diff=2265815&oldid=2247632) with the following comment:

"That link has been dead for over a year now as per this stackoverflow comment: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13546254/whats-a-fast-way-to-parse-a-wikipedia-xml-dump-for-article-content-and-populate"

If you'd like to explain what you would have used DizzyLogic for, I'd love to help you figure out how to use Parsoid to accomplish your goals.  It's an officially-supported WMF parser which has much better correctness that any 'alternative' parser out there, implements a friendly API similar to mwparserfromhell (see https://doc.wikimedia.org/Parsoid/master/#!/guide/jsapi), and has a well-documented AST (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Specs/HTML/1.2.1) which can be directly fetched via the REST api (cf https://en.wikipedia.org/api/ ).  I believe dumps have also been planned, but I'm not sure what the current status is.

 --scott

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Reem Al-Kashif <reemalkashif@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Pine,

Thank you for your reply. It is an alternative parser. I believe I first saw on MediaWiki (here).

Best,
Reem

On 11 November 2016 at 09:47, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Was this something on Labs? If so, it might have been purged during one of the Labs cleanups.

Pine

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Reem Al-Kashif <reemalkashif@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm just wondering if anybody knows what happened to DizzyLogic wiki parser? The website and program vanished. I used it in January 2016 so I know it was there at this time.

Best,
Reem

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