Alternative parsers

This is a page to collect together links, descriptions, and status reports of the various alternative MediaWiki parsers - that is, programs and projects, other than MediaWiki itself, which are able or intended to translate MediaWiki's text markup syntax into something else. Some of these have quite narrow purposes, others are possible contenders for replacing the somewhat labyrinthine code that currently drives MediaWiki itself.

Many of the things linked here are likely to be out of date and under-maintained, even abandoned. But in the interest of not duplicating the same work over and over, it seemed sensible to collect together what was "out there".

Related topics

 * One-pass parser
 * MediaWiki lexer and MediaWiki flexer (not parsers as such, just grammar definitions; probably superceded by/within other projects below)
 * w:en:Wikipedia:Text editor support includes various scripts and extensions for things like syntax highlighting for things like EMACS, Vim, and all sorts; some of these may include rudimentary parsing capabilities.