Registration & Scholarship Application for Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is Open! You might have already heard the buzz: the Wikimedia Hackathon is gearing up for an incredible event in Tallinn, Estonia,… Continue reading “Registration & Scholarship Application for Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is Open! ”…
Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is Here: Mark Your Calendar 🎉 We are thrilled to share the exciting news that the 2024 Wikimedia Hackathon is scheduled to unfold in the captivating… Continue reading “Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 is Here: Mark Your Calendar 🎉”…
Flame graphs arrive in WikimediaDebug The new “Excimer UI” option in WikimediaDebug generates flame graphs. What are flame graphs, and when do you need this? Continue reading “Flame graphs arrive in WikimediaDebug”…
Around the world: How Wikipedia became a multi-datacenter deployment Learn why we transitioned the MediaWiki platform to serve traffic from multiple data centers, and the challenges we faced along the way. Continue reading “Around the world: How Wikipedia became a multi-datacenter deployment”…
From hell to HTML: releasing a Python package to easily work with Wikimedia HTML dumps Announcing mwparserfromhtml, a new library that makes it easy to parse the HTML content of Wikipedia articles Continue reading “From hell to HTML: releasing a Python package to easily work with Wikimedia HTML dumps”…
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2020 Looking back at our ups and downs, including FOSDEM and Mobile Device Lab. Continue reading “Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2020”…
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2019 Looking back at our ups and downs. Joining the W3C, implementing Paint Timing in upstream WebKit, and researching perceived performance. Continue reading “Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2019”…
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2018 Looking back at our ups and downs. Including a literature review, multi-DC prep, and a new data center in Singapore. Continue reading “Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2018”…
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2017 Reduce Wikipedia’s time-to-logo Thanks to the new Preload web standard developed by the W3C WebPerf working group, we were able… Continue reading “Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2017”…
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016 Looking back at our ups and downs. Including HTTP/2 deployment, metric collection improvements, and the begining of our journey to Thumbor. Continue reading “Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016”…