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Re:Wikimedia Foundation spending by lacksconfidence on Sunday May 07, 2017 @09:24PM (#14288651)
> believe the MediaWiki parser itself is something like a single 5000 line PHP function!

It's not. I'm on mobile so not easiest to link, but the PHP versio of the parser is nothing like a single function. There is also a nodejs version of the parser under active development with the goal of replacing the php parser.

Re:Wikimedia Foundation spending by 3131s on Monday May 08, 2017 @02:25AM (#14289643)
Thanks, I had heard that somewhere but stand corrected.