We already run a public Parsoid service.
Kiwix uses it, as does Nell's Wikipedia. I believe some non-WMF content translation efforts also use it.
Usage limits and API keys would probably be a reasonable thing to do, longer-term. --scott
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:10 AM, James Forrester < jforrester@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 27 January 2015 at 11:04, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Whether this can apply also to things like Parsoid might be tricky -- that's the biggest Scary Thing since core editing with VE/Flow is going
to
depend on it.
​Running Parsoid as a public service (with some soft-ish API limits)
would
allow us to support the oft-cited user who has a dumb PHP-only box and no means to install a node service, so that has my support;
Yay!
however, I worry that WMF might not be the best organisation to provide this if people wanted it at large for commercial use.
Agreed... but if not us, then who?
/me looks around at folks, wonders if anyone wants to commit to running such a service as a third-party that we could make super-easy for shared PHP-host users to use...
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