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Month: November 2020

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Wikimedia’s CDN: the road to ATS

The 2nd of a 3 part series that describes some of the changes to Wikimedia’s Content Delivery Network, including the replacement of Varnish with Apache Traffic Server (ATS) as the on-disk HTTP cache component of the CDN.
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Posted on: November 25, 2020 Last updated on: December 18, 2020 Comments: 1 Emanuele Rocca

Web performance case study: Wikipedia page previews

Preview popups are common and requires careful scripting and styling; they can generate useful learning about performance as a reference for other front-end tasks.
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Posted on: November 23, 2020 Last updated on: November 11, 2024 Noam Rosenthal

This bot is judging you: here’s how we made it better at it

After two years of planning and migration work, the 3rd generation WP 1.0 web tool has launched! Learn more about how it happened and what it means for Wikipedia’s editors.
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Posted on: November 3, 2020 Last updated on: November 3, 2020 Comments: 2 Travis Briggs

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