Linter updates in a Parsoid-in-ParserCache world
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	Feb 19 2023, 10:18 PM

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Forking from T320534: Put Parsoid output into the ParserCache on every edit.

In T320534#8627556, @Legoktm wrote:

Thanks for explaining - I should've just led with my real question sorry, which is whether this will change how Linter updates will work (see related T159512#8627272). Lint errors are effectively derived/secondary data from the Parsoid parsing process, so in theory it should happen as part of RefreshLinks. That would require us to do a full Parsoid parse, just like, AIUI, we do with the legacy parser right now. I assume that eventually we will be extracting links tables, etc. from Parsoid, so at some point we'll need to do a Parsoid parse in RefreshLinks regardless.

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Mentioned In: T330725: Merge Linter extension into MediaWiki core
T320534: Put Parsoid output into the ParserCache on every edit
Mentioned Here: T159512: Add option to refreshLinks.php to only update pages that haven't been updated since a timestamp
T320534: Put Parsoid output into the ParserCache on every edit

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Legoktm created this task.Feb 19 2023, 10:18 PM

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In T320534#8628082, @daniel wrote:

Lint errors are effectively derived/secondary data from the Parsoid parsing process, so in theory it should happen as part of RefreshLinks.

I see... this is very expensive, though.... Will template changes even affect linter errors? And should they? They indicate whetehr there is something wron with the page's wikitext. That doesn't change as long as the page itself isn't edited, right?

Yes, lint errors operate on the parsed HTML, so if a template changes something to be unbalanced or uses obsolete HTML, it will trigger a new lint error - and vice versa, templates do get updated to fix lint errors.

Legoktm mentioned this in T320534: Put Parsoid output into the ParserCache on every edit.Feb 19 2023, 10:20 PM

Izno moved this task from Backlog to Parsoid on the MediaWiki-extensions-Linter board.Feb 19 2023, 10:39 PM

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Legoktm mentioned this in T330725: Merge Linter extension into MediaWiki core.Feb 28 2023, 4:36 AM

daniel triaged this task as Medium priority.Jun 5 2023, 6:14 PM

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