Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation

Staff and Contractors

Subbu Sastry

Principal Software Engineer, Structured Content
Email
Profile on Meta-Wiki
Posts by Subbu Sastry

Profiles — Profils

Other members of Structured Content

Mark Holmquist
Engineering Manager, Structured Content
Brion Vibber
Staff Software Architect, Structured Content
James Forrester
Senior Software Engineer, Structured Content

Recent posts by Subbu Sastry View all

Evolving the MediaWiki platform: Why we replaced Tidy with a HTML5 parser

Foundation From the archives MediaWiki Technology

Three years ago, the Wikimedia Foundation's Parsing Team decided to replace Tidy, a tool to fix HTML errors, with a HTML5-based tool. Here's what we did in that time period, and what kind of complexities we faced in changing pieces of the technical infrastructure powering Wikimedia wikis.

By and
Read more

Photo credits

Sastry_Subbu

Myleen Hollero/Wikimedia Foundation

CC BY-SA 3.0

Castle Cary catch points - 02