Web Perf Hero: Thiemo Kreuz
From optimizing the MediaWiki stack on Wikipedia.org, to speeding up CI; Thiemo’s work benefits us every day!
Category: MediaWiki Engineering
MediaWiki Engineering Team
To learn more, visit wikitech.wikimedia.org.
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
APIs as a product: Investing in the current and next generation of technical contributors
Wikipedia is coming up on its 25th birthday, and that would not have been possible without the Wikimedia technical volunteer…
Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó
We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%.
Modernizing our tech stack for serving maps at Wikipedia
MediaWiki allows editors to contribute with geospatial content. Learn more about the internals of the map technology we use and the improvements introduced.
Parsoid in PHP, or there and back again
In December 2019, we replaced the original version of Parsoid, written in JavaScript, with a version written in PHP, the primary programming language of MediaWiki. This new version, called Parsoid/PHP, is roughly twice as fast as the original JavaScript version. Parsoid/PHP brings us one step closer to integrating Parsoid and other MediaWiki wikitext-handling code into a single system.