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 I had successfully installed MediaWiki, an additional [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:WYSIWYG|WYSIWYG editor]], and as a final step I wanted to also configure the [[mediawikiwiki:VisualEditor|Visual Editor]].  To do that, one also needs to install the [[mediawikiwiki:Parsoid|Parsoid]] service (daemon, well in CentOS 7, they seem to now favor the term service) and get them 'talking' together.  So I did.  I got the Parsoid service working, and...
-Two side notes here.  In my attempts to get the Parsoid service working I noticed that in my instance I could start the service and even if it didn't start correctly, it wouldn't notify me there was an error.  I had to manually check the status to discover it wasn't actually started.  So watch out for that item.  For me in CentOS 7.4, the command is: systemctl status parsoid  Another item I noticed was that the   OK, a third item I noticed was that a lot of the documentation I was reading had configuration references that were for older versions.  I was working with WikiMedia 1.3 and the Parsoid version available 1.14.2018.
+Wait, <s>two</s> three side notes here.  In my attempts to get the Parsoid service working I noticed that in my instance I could start the service and even if it didn't start correctly, it wouldn't notify me there was an error.  I had to manually check the status to discover it wasn't actually started.  So watch out for that item.  For me in CentOS 7.4, the command is: systemctl status parsoid
+Another item I noticed was that the config.yaml (for the Parsoid service) file was oddly picky about the spaces and tabs on every line, and if it wasn't happy, it wouldn't start.  I had to copy and paste the tabs or spaces that preceded lines from other configuration lines where I had erased it on other lines.
+OK, that reminds me, there's a third item I noticed too, which was that a lot of the documentation I was reading had configuration references that were for older versions.  I was working with WikiMedia 1.3 and the Parsoid version available on 1.14.2018.  A lot of the documentation I read referred to the localsettings.js file (Parsoid service configuration) which appears to have been deprecated at some point in favor of the config.yaml file.
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