Wikipedia's new editing system, and how you can use it too
summary
A usable wysiwyg for Wikipedia is no longer hypothetical: a JavaScript client called Visual Editor edits HTML produced by a Node.js service called Parsoid which uses a PEG grammar to recover wikitext. The team ships a transactional per-character array model, preserves templates and hidden metadata, and reports high‑90s percent clean round trips. It targets English Wikipedia as default in weeks, is MIT‑licensed, and aims for collaborative editing and WordPress integration.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Wikipedia editing challenges
- 5:27WYSIWYG editor necessity
- 10:17Wikitext parsing hurdles
- 17:20Visual Editor project
- 23:46Handling complex content
- 28:58Visual Editor demo
- 33:54Advanced features and future
- 36:46Integration and adoption plans
- 40:59Q&A
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