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The visual editor in [http://www.mediawiki .org/wiki/VisualEditor Visual Editor] for MediaWiki relies on the parsoid '''Parsoid''' extension <ref>[https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FParsoid Parsoid extension]</ref>.  <blockquote>"Parsoid implements a bidirectional wikitext parser and interpreter. Itconverts and interprets wikitext into an annotated HTML DOM, which can then beedited with HTML editor tools such as the Visual Editor. It also provides the conversionof a (possibly modified) HTML DOM back to wikitext."</blockquote> Robin Cover would be proud. It round-trips wiki to HTML and back. Parsoid brings node.js to mediawiki. To install the visual editor extension in a webfaction account, you need to first have node installed and working. You can do this by using the [http://docs.webfaction.com/software/custom.html installer in your webfaction panel] and associating a path with the app for a domain.

Once node (and npm) is available, you of course need to get the parsoid and visual_editor extensions. A quick <code>npm install</code> in the parsoid directory sets up all the node machinery. == API / Developer Documentation ==* https://doc.wikimedia.org/VisualEditor/master/ powered by JSDuck* http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikitext wikitext-l I [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132479/1/api/ParsoidService.js noticed a bug] and it was fixed about 5 minutes after I mentioned it! (Thanks C. Scott Ananian)