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Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó

We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%.

You might have already heard the buzz: the Wikimedia Hackathon is gearing up for an incredible event in Tallinn, Estonia,…

We are thrilled to share the exciting news that the 2024 Wikimedia Hackathon is scheduled to unfold in the captivating…

The new “Excimer UI” option in WikimediaDebug generates flame graphs. What are flame graphs, and when do you need this?

Learn why we transitioned the MediaWiki platform to serve traffic from multiple data centers, and the challenges we faced along the way.

Announcing mwparserfromhtml, a new library that makes it easy to parse the HTML content of Wikipedia articles