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>
Robin Cover would be proud. It round-trips wiki to HTML and back.
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.
You'll want to set/update your $NODE_PATH and $PATH environment variables to locate the installed node modules, and to find the node and npm binaries
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.
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)
* https://doc.wikimedia.org/VisualEditor/master/ powered by JSDuck
* http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.wikitext wikitext-l