Permuting Khmer: Restructuring Khmer syllables for search
Khmer is written left-to-right in syllable groups, without spaces between words—though that’s not its most complicated feature!
Recent Posts
Celebrating 600,000 commits for Wikimedia
A reflection on the developer services we offer and our community of developers.
A Better Toolforge: upgrading the Kubernetes cluster
This article focuses on how we made a better Toolforge by integrating a newer version of Kubernetes and, along with it, some more modern workflows.
What does it mean to “keep community in the loop” when building algorithms for Wikipedia?
We argue that if you follow three steps, you can “keep community in the loop” as you build algorithmic systems, making you more likely to avoid catastrophic and community-damaging consequences.
Measuring the performance of Wikipedia visitors’ devices
We have been collecting microbenchmark scores for over a year. This lets us see the long-term evolution of our audience as a whole. The information gives us an idea of how fast device/operating system/browser environments improve on their own.
Using Zulip, an Open Source tool, for engaging participants in Wikimedia’s technical outreach programs
Zulip enables organizers and mentors to provide support and guidance to participants in each phase of technical outreach programs.
Google Code-In 2019: The next generation of technologists contribute to Wikimedia’s code
Each year the Google Code-in contest brings students and mentors from around the world together to improve their technical skills and to make contributions to the Wikimedia movement.
Organizing and running a developer room at FOSDEM
For FOSDEM 2020, the Wikimedia Performance Team organized a Web Performance devroom. In this post, they share their experience.
What’s trending? New report lets editors know when Wikipedia articles go viral
Posts on social media can make an otherwise obscure Wikipedia article go viral. A new traffic report gives English Wikipedians new insight into which ones are being read and shared most on four major social media platforms.
Fixing npm security issues immediately in MediaWiki projects
LibUp writes a commit message by mostly analyzing the diff, fixes up some changes, and pushes the commit to Gerrit to pass through CI and be merged. If npm is aware of the CVE ID for the security update, that will be mentioned in the commit message. Each package upgrade is tagged, so if you want to e.g. look for all commits that bumped MediaWiki Codesniffer to v26, it’s a quick search away.