Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%. Continue reading “Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó”…
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”…
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