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Author: Ori Livneh

How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast

Over the past six months we deployed a new technology that sped up Wikipedia’s backend application, reducing the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
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Posted on: December 29, 2014 Last updated on: November 23, 2021 Comments: 0 Ori Livneh

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