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.
Tag: Wikimedia
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.
The Query Service Tutorial for Wikidata: an interview with Dr. Keren Shatzman from Wikimedia Israel
With the Wikidata Query service tutorial, Wikimedia Israel aims to empower new users to query Wikidata, which currently holds almost 90 million items.
Wikimedia’s CDN up to 2018: Varnish and IPSec
The 1st of a 3 part series that will describe some of the changes, which included replacing Varnish with Apache Traffic Server (ATS) as the on-disk HTTP cache component of the CDN.
Diving into Wikipedia’s ocean of errors
This blog post documents how we prioritized debugging an issue on mobile; how we went about implementing a solution; and what we learned from the experience.
Wikimedia’s Event Data Platform – Event Intake
Part 3 of 3 posts on Wikimedia’s event data platform.
From Gerrit to Gitlab: join the discussion
Wikimedia Release Engineering is considering a move from Gerrit to Gitlab. Learn more about the reasoning and join the discussion.
Wikimedia’s Event Data Platform – JSON & Event Schemas
In the previous post, we talked about why Wikimedia chose JSONSchema instead of Avro for our Event Data Platform. This post will discuss the conventions we adopted and the tooling we built to support an Event Data Platform using JSON and JSONSchema.