Email 
Profile on Meta-Wiki 
Posts by Tim Starling Profiles — Perfiles
Other members of Architecture
Dana Bredemeyer
Staff Systems Architect, Architecture
Diana Montalion
Principal System Architect, Architecture
Alexandra Paskulin
Staff Technical Writer, ArchitectureRecent posts by Tim Starling
Evolving the MediaWiki platform: Why we replaced Tidy with a HTML5 parser
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.
Photo credits
Castle Cary catch points - 02