How Many Languages Does Wikimedia Search Support?
TL;DR: On-wiki search “supports” a lot of “languages”. “Search supports more than 50 language varieties” is a defensible position to take. “Search supports…
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Wikimedia Toolforge: migrating Kubernetes from PodSecurityPolicy to Kyverno
Summary: this article shares the experience and learnings of migrating away from Kubernetes PodSecurityPolicy into Kyverno in the Wikimedia Toolforge…
Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó
We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%.
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,…
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…
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?
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.
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
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2020
Looking back at our ups and downs, including FOSDEM and Mobile Device Lab.
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2019
Looking back at our ups and downs.