Parser 2011

Core projects
Wikimedia Engineering's key future-facing priority for 2011–2012 is creating a rich text editing environment, backed by a revamped, normalized, more consistent wikitext parser. Our 2011-2012 annual plan aims to "Develop Visual Editor. First opt-in user-facing production usage by December 2011, and first small wiki default deployment by June 2012."

Visual editor
Modernize editing to make editing more welcoming for newbies, still just as powerful for oldbies.


 * Visual editor - Main project page
 * Visual Editor design - The main design document.

Parser

 * Future/Parser development: Architecture and status of current implementation effort; TODO list and how to get started
 * Future/HTML5 DOM with microdata: The data model we are producing
 * Future/Parser test cases

Get involved

 * Join the wikitext-l mailing list if interested in following along or getting involved; there should be posts from Brion, Trevor, or Gabriel, and we're going to need feedback and help!
 * Collect test cases (example pages, known problematic pages, corpus from Wikipedia, adapted parser tests) via Future/Parser test cases
 * Pick any of the tasks in [|the parser TODO list], and post to wikitext or ping gwicke on IRC if you'd like help / feedback.