I am reaching out to you to know about the usage of this tool. We have a very old version 1.17.5 of Mediawiki in our organization and want to convert the pages of it to html pages and store it on disk for archiving. As you know internally Mediawiki stores pages as WikiText.

Can parsoid (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid) help us here? I also saw the documentation of VisualEditor extension (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor) which uses parsoid internally to convert wikitext pages. Which tool among these 2 should we use to do my job? Can you please suggest? can parsoid be used as a standalone application or tool instead of VE?

If we use any of them do we need to just provide the url of our Mediawiki page (example - https://<our_dns_host>/wiki/TestPage or do we need to extract the content from DB which is in WikiText format and feed it to parsoid for converting it to html page?

Thanks