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 multimedia files. MediaWiki has a built-in imagescaler that, until now, we used in production as…
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 time each function spends. In 2014, we introduced Arc Lamp to help detect and diagnose…
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 months. In particular, Valentín dove deep into Apache Traffic Server. We use ATS as the…
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 for each release, monitor them for vulnerabilities, and find a way to safely ship them…
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 2024.…
MediaWiki is the platform that powers Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. There is a lot of traffic to these sites. We want to serve our audience in a way that they get the best experience and performance possible. So efficiency of the MediaWiki platform is of great importance to us…
Data is powerful — every business on earth uses data. But some are leveraging it more than others.The problem?Not all businesses are using data ethically.You need to collect, store, and analyse data to grow your business. But, if you aren’t careful, you could be crossing the line with your data…
Data privacy issues are a significant concern for users globally.Around 76% of US consumers report that they would not buy from a company they do not trust with their data. In the European Union, a 2021 study found that around 53% of EU internet users refused to let companies access…
Now that companies can segment buyers, the days of mass marketing are behind us. Customer segmentation offers various benefits for marketing, content creation, sales, analytics teams and more. Without customer segmentation, your personalised marketing efforts may fall flat. According to the Twilio 2023 state of personalisation report, 69% of business leaders…
Your data is everywhere. Every time you sign up for an email list, log in to Facebook or download a free app onto your smartphone, your data is being taken.This can scare customers and users who fear their data will be misused.While data can be a powerful asset for your…