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.
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org