On 2015-01-27 12:51 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
Hi!
​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; however, I worry that WMF might not be the best organisation to provide this if people wanted it at large for commercial use.
I think the prospect of having publicly-accessible services like Parsoid useable by smaller wiki installer is very cool and exciting. Thought it does not solve all cases - i.e. for inter-company wiki (which I personally used extensively as a medium for capturing internal docs, discussions, plans, etc.) there may be legal and confidentiality reasons that do not allow using services crossing the firewall.
Companies running internal wikis naturally aren't using shared hosting.
They would probably be better served with alternative setups that make it easy to setup and run the services locally.
Something for things like Vagrant, Docker, Turnkey, etc...
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]