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The [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor Visual Editor] for MediaWiki relies on the '''[[mw:Extension:Parsoid|Parsoid]]''' extension <ref>[https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FParsoid Parsoid extension]</ref>AND the Parsoid service. The Parsoid service is a node.js server that interacts with the mediawiki API.

<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>

Parsoid brings node== Installation ==You'll need at least [http://www.js to mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.23 MediaWiki v1.23]. I personally run the same [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Version version that they're running on mediawiki.org] (1.24wmf3 [[User:Freephile|greg.rundlett]] ([[User talk:Freephile|talk]]) 19:39, 9 May 2014 (UTC))=== WebFaction ===  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.

To have it run continuously, you might want to use the 'forever' module. <source lang="bash">npm install forever</source>  == Extensions ==# [[mw:Extension:VisualEditor]]# [[mw:Extension:Parsoid]] == API / Developer Documentation Docs / DevOps ==* [[mw:Parsoid/Setup]]* [[mw:Parsoid/Troubleshooting]]* [[mw:Parsoid/Debugging]]* [[mw:Parsoid/Packaging]]* [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Parsoid DevOps] (Wikitech)