Both Wikimedia and the Internet have changed a lot over the last 25 years. Patterns that are now ubiquitous standards either didn’t exist or were still in their infancy as the first APIs allowing developers to extend features and automate tasks on Wikimedia projects emerged. In fact, the term “representational state transfer”, better known today as the REST framework, was first coined in 2000, just months before the very first Wikipedia post was published, and only 6 years before the Ac...| techblog.wikimedia.org
The Campaigns team at WMF has released two features that allow organizers to promote events and WikiProjects on the wikis:… Continue reading “Promoting events and WikiProjects”…| [[WM:TECHBLOG]]
Dietmar Rabich, Cape Town (ZA), Sea Point, Nachtansicht — 2024 — 1867-70 – 2, CC BY-SA 4.0Wikimedia Cloud VPS is a service offered by the Wikimedia Foundation, built using OpenStack and managed by the Wikimedia Cloud Services team. It provides cloud computing resources for projects related to the Wikimedia movement, including virtual machines, databases, storage, Kubernetes, and DNS.| techblog.wikimedia.org
This post is about importing Wikidata into the graph database technology used for hosting the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). The post includes details on how you can perform your own full Wikidata import to Blazegraph in about a week if you have a nice desktop computer, which was one of the nice takeaways from the analysis.| techblog.wikimedia.org
TL;DR: We “support” a lot of “languages”! “More than 50 language varieties” is a defensible position to take. “More than 40 languages” is 100% guaranteed. “Over 300 languages” is admittedly expansive spin, but not entirely untrue. Precise numbers present a philosophical conundrum.| techblog.wikimedia.org
Summary: this article shares the experience and learnings of migrating away from Kubernetes PodSecurityPolicy into Kyverno in the Wikimedia Toolforge platform.| techblog.wikimedia.org
We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%.| techblog.wikimedia.org
You might have already heard the buzz: the Wikimedia Hackathon is gearing up for an incredible event in Tallinn, Estonia, from May 3rd to 5th, 2024. Now, we’re thrilled to announce that the Registration form, which also includes an optional Scholarship application, is officially open until Friday January 5th 2023.| [[WM:TECHBLOG]]
We are thrilled to share the exciting news that the 2024 Wikimedia Hackathon is scheduled to unfold in the captivating city of Tallinn, Estonia, from May 3rd – 5th 2024!| [[WM:TECHBLOG]]
The new “Excimer UI” option in WikimediaDebug generates flame graphs. What are flame graphs, and when do you need this?| techblog.wikimedia.org
Looking back at our ups and downs. Including HTTP/2 deployment, metric collection improvements, and the begining of our journey to Thumbor.| techblog.wikimedia.org
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.| techblog.wikimedia.org
Deploying HTTP/2 support to the Wikimedia CDN significantly changed how browsers negotiate and transfer data during the page load process. We found regressions in performance during the transition and are sharing the lessons we learned.| techblog.wikimedia.org