2020: The Year in Vue
A look back at a year of experiences of using Vue within the Structured Data team.
Recent Posts (page 7)
Wikimedia and Google Season of Docs 2020
For the last two years, Wikimedia has participated in Google Season of the docs. In this post, Gbadebo Bello shares his experiences with the program.
Censorship, outages and Internet shutdowns: monitoring Wikipedia’s accessibility around the world
This article describes the methodology used by the Wikimedia Foundation to monitor outages on Wikipedia around the world. These events are called anomalies and could be due to various causes, among them censorship.
2020 Coolest Tool Awards: Thank you for the tools!
For the past two years, the Coolest Tool Awards has celebrated tools created and used by the Wikimedia community. Read about 2020’s winners.
Make your technical work on Wikimedia projects more fabulous with these Phabricator video tutorials
What is Phabricator? How does it work? Learn about a set of new video tutorials that can help you learn how to use the collaboration tool used by folks working in Wikimedia’s technical spaces.
Wikimedia’s CDN: datacenter switchover
The 3rd and last article of a series that describes some of the changes to Wikimedia’s Content Delivery Network, including the replacement of Varnish with Apache Traffic Server (ATS) as the on-disk HTTP cache component of the CDN.
Wikimedia’s CDN: the road to ATS
The 2nd of a 3 part series that describes some of the changes to Wikimedia’s Content Delivery Network, including the replacement of Varnish with Apache Traffic Server (ATS) as the on-disk HTTP cache component of the CDN.
Web performance case study: Wikipedia page previews
Preview popups are common and requires careful scripting and styling; they can generate useful learning about performance as a reference for other front-end tasks.
This bot is judging you: here’s how we made it better at it
After two years of planning and migration work, the 3rd generation WP 1.0 web tool has launched! Learn more about how it happened and what it means for Wikipedia’s editors.
Wikipedia as a castle in the wilderness: modernization in the dynamic world of the internet
A developer’s journey from software development to systems thinking, and how it impacts the future of Wikipedia.