[EPIC] Use Parsoid for UX
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	Jul 24 2024, 5:06 PM

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(I thought this task had already been created as "Parsoid Read Views phase 5" but I can't find it; feel free to merge as dup if we find the earlier task.)

There are three main components to replacing the legacy parser with Parsoid:

Using Parsoid for read views HTML
Using Parsoid in the post-edit pathway to generate article metadata for the database
Using Parsoid for UX elements, including Messages

This task is for that last one. Part of this work will be switching OutputPage::addWikitext* methods to set the 'useParsoid' flag in the ParserOptions, another part will be to adjust MessageCache to do the same. Some performance work might need to be done on Parsoid to improve the parsing time for short input texts which don't involve much (or any) markup. @tstarling looked at that a while ago and has already made some improvements; there's another task buried in phabricator somewhere which outlines the remaining work he felt was needed.

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Open	Feature	None	T54091 The read HTML should have hinting to allow full DOM copying (as opposed to just rich copying) from read mode into VE surfaces
Open		None	T55784 [EPIC] Use Parsoid HTML for all page views
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Open		None	T370923 MessageCache could cache parsed output, not just input wikitext

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cscott created this task.Jul 24 2024, 5:06 PM

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T112999: Let MediaWiki operate entirely without wikitext was tangentially related, in that part of that work was to tag UX "wikitext" elements, like Messages, with a content-type so that they could be expressed as raw HTML, wikitext, wikitext/2.0, markdown, etc. That could be included in this task, which would allow a gradual transition message-or-element-by-message-or-element to Parsoid instead of the legacy parser by using an appropriate content-type, instead of switching them all at once. It's not necessary to do that though.

cscott added a parent task: T55784: [EPIC] Use Parsoid HTML for all page views.Jul 24 2024, 5:09 PM

cscott added a subtask: T370923: MessageCache could cache parsed output, not just input wikitext.Jul 24 2024, 5:11 PM

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MSantos moved this task from Uncategorized to Later on the Parsoid-Read-Views board.Jul 25 2024, 2:17 PM

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cscott mentioned this in T415583: langconv syntax being seen in dev wiki API output?.Thu, Jan 29, 3:38 PM