Looking back: improvements to edit save time Is it faster to save articles on Wikipedia than it was a year ago? Continue reading “Looking back: improvements to edit save time”…
Investigating a performance improvement When a performance improvement seems too good to be true, it’s time to investigate in depth and find out what happened. Continue reading “Investigating a performance improvement”…
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. Continue reading “How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast”…