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
Tag: MediaWiki
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016
Looking back at our ups and downs.
Web Perf Hero: Valentín Gutierrez
Today we celebrate two numbers: 25% lower latency for ATS backend requests at the p75, and up to 1000X reduction of ATS disk read latency at the p999.
What it takes to parse MediaWiki page titles… in Rust
MediaWiki page titles are the primary identifiers for all wiki content – learn how they are validated, normalized and parsed and what it took to do so in Rust.
June 2021 Datacenter Switchover
In June 2021, most user traffic was switched from our primary Virginia datacenter to our secondary one in Texas. This post covers how the swtichover went and the issues that came up.
Alone together: Wikimedia Hackathon 2021
Wikimedia’s 2021 Hackathon brought participants from all over the globe together online. This post explored the event and its outcomes.
Profiling PHP in production at scale
We built an efficient sampling profiler for PHP. It runs continually in production on live requests, and generates trace logs and flame graphs.
2020: The Year in Vue
A look back at a year of experiences of using Vue within the Structured Data team.
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.
Impact of using HTTP connection pooling for PHP applications at scale
This post explores the challenges of running PHP applications at a large scale and discusses the effect of using Envoy on MediaWiki applications.