Pedro de Medeiros wrote:
To make this change into a valid summer of code project, I propose to do a wiki parser, for which I have already designed some draft rules in a yacc/bison manner.
Have you looked at the existing parser attempts in SVN (I don't remember if they're all still there)? Getting the first 90% of a real parser for MediaWiki syntax will take a small fraction of the time required to get a full parser. This makes it easy to create another almost-but-not-quite-finished parser by the end of the summer, and we'd be no better off for it.
I strongly recommend investigating the existing parser attempts, and finishing one of them.
Who should I talk to? Maybe I can email some of my draft yacc/bison parser to the mentor?
If Arne "Timwi" Heizmann was interested in mentoring someone for SoC, he'd likely be a good person to mentor this project.