Is this a confirmed Wikimania-Hackathon-2015 task? If so, please move it to the appropriate column in the workboard and assign it to the main contact person. Thank you!

@Qgil -- what's involved with "confirming" it as a hackathon task? Sorry, I'm a little out of the loop.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/225253/ is the patch that implements this.

More work to be done:

1. Rather than shove this into the Parsoid codebase, a better solution would be to use a different repository that massages the markdown HTML appropriately and queries a public parsoid API.

2. Besides the strong/em massaging already being done, additional things to do would be to replace <code> snippets with appropriate <syntaxhighlight> ext. tags. which should also eliminate the nowiking being encountered.

What is the status of this task, now that Wikimania 2015 is over? Did this hacking project take place and was successfully finished? If yes: Please provide an update and potentially summarize findings / provide a link to anything relevant (and if the task is not completely finished yet, please move the project to the "Work continues after Mexico City" column on the Wikimania-Hackathon-2015 workboard). If no: Please edit this task by removing the Wikimania-Hackathon-2015 project from this task. Thanks for your help and keeping this task updated!

A message to all open tasks related to the Wikimania-Hackathon-2015. What do you need to complete this task? Do you need support from the Wikimedia Foundation to push it forward? Help promoting this project? Finding an intern to work on it? Organizing a developer sprint? Pitching it to WMF teams? Applying for a grant? If you need support, share your request at T107423: Evaluate which projects showcased at the Wikimania Hackathon 2015 should be supported further or contact me personally. Thank you!