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Month: October 2020

Wikipedia as a castle in the wilderness: modernization in the dynamic world of the internet

A developer’s journey from software development to systems thinking, and how it impacts the future of Wikipedia.
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Posted on: October 29, 2020 Last updated on: October 29, 2020 Comments: 4 Moriel Schottlender

Impact of using HTTP connection pooling for PHP applications at scale

This post explores the challenges of running PHP applications at a large scale and discusses the effect of using Envoy on MediaWiki applications.
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Posted on: October 26, 2020 Last updated on: December 1, 2020 Comments: 1 Giuseppe Lavagetto

The Query Service Tutorial for Wikidata: an interview with Dr. Keren Shatzman from Wikimedia Israel

With the Wikidata Query service tutorial, Wikimedia Israel aims to empower new users to query Wikidata, which currently holds almost 90 million items.
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Posted on: October 19, 2020 Last updated on: October 20, 2020 Comments: 0 Dr. Keren Shatzman and Elisabeth Giesemann
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Wikimedia’s CDN up to 2018: Varnish and IPSec

The 1st of a 3 part series that will describe some of the changes, which included replacing Varnish with Apache Traffic Server (ATS) as the on-disk HTTP cache component of the CDN.
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Posted on: October 14, 2020 Last updated on: November 4, 2022 Comments: 1 Emanuele Rocca
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Bot or Not? Identifying “fake” traffic on Wikipedia

We have been working this past year to better identify and tag the “bot spam” traffic so we can produce top pageview lists that (mostly) do not require manual curation.
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Posted on: October 5, 2020 Last updated on: February 23, 2021 Comments: 1 Nuria Ruiz, Joseph Allemandou, Leila Zia and MusikAnimal

MediaWiki History: the best dataset on Wikimedia content and contributors

Learn about using the Mediawiki History Dataset to explore the every day experience of editors on Wikipedia.
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Posted on: October 1, 2020 Last updated on: October 13, 2020 Comments: 0 Marcel Forns, Joseph Allemandou, Dan Andreescu and Nuria Ruiz

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