Wikimania 2024

C. Scott Ananian

C. Scott Ananian began editing articles on Wikipedia in 2005, and since 2013 is an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, working on the Parsoid project. He also dabbles with LanguageConverter and real-time collaboration in Visual Editor.

Previously, Dr. Ananian was a jack-of-all-trades for the One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC). He received his PhD in computer science from MIT, and before joining OLPC was a local activist and organizer for copyright issues. He organized Free Sklyarov Boston in July 2001, and in 2004 and 2005 was the lead programmer for the Election Incident Reporting System, which collected real-time data on elections across the US. He's also been a kernel hacker and part-time khipu researcher. Now he tries to build robust and reliable systems to allow everyone to discover, share, and learn.


Session

08-09
11:30
25min
Parsoid is coming! How do I keep up? [[Wikitext]] in 2024.
C. Scott Ananian

Wikitext has a chance to evolve in 2024, as the Content Transform Team begins to deploy the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser for article views on many Foundation wikis. This talk describes how to opt-in to an early look at the new parser and outlines the testing tools and decision framework used to guide deployment timing and ensure wiki content is unbroken. We’ll survey useful tools to check and migrate content on Wikimedia and 3rd-party wikis. With our new parser comes opportunities for new wikitext features, and we’ll touch on a few of those as well!

Technology
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