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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,…
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! A Celebration of Innovation and…
The new “Excimer UI” option in WikimediaDebug generates flame graphs. What are flame graphs, and when do you need this? A flame graph visualizes a tree of function calls across the codebase, and emphasizes the…
Learn why we transitioned the MediaWiki platform to serve traffic from multiple data centers, and the challenges we faced along the way. Wikimedia Foundation provides access to information for people around the globe. When you…
For over 15 years, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided public dumps of the content of all wikis. They are not only useful for archiving or offline reader projects, but can also power tools for semi-automated…
Thumbor shadow-serving production traffic Wikimedia Commons is our open media repository. Like Wikipedia and its other sister projects, Commons runs on the MediaWiki platform. Commons is home to millions of photos, documents, videos, and other…
By Tyler Cipriani Creating a Docker image for your service should be easy—cram your code and its dependencies into a container: boom. done. But that’s never the whole story. You have to build new images…
By Timo Tijhof I’m happy to share that the second Web Perf Hero award of 2022 goes to Valentín Gutierrez! This award is in recognition of Valentín’s work on the Wikimedia CDN over the past three…
By Timo Tijhof Hello, HTTP/2! In 2016, the Wikimedia Foundation deployed HTTP/2 (or “H2”) support to our CDN. At the time, we used Nginx- for TLS termination and two layers of Varnish for caching. We…
By Taavi Väänänen I’ve been working for a while to make it possible to use Terraform to manage Wikimedia Cloud VPS, and I’m finally happy to announce that for the most part, it’s now possible. Terraform is a…
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