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Measuring the performance of Wikipedia visitors’ devices

We have been collecting microbenchmark scores for over a year. This lets us see the long-term evolution of our audience as a whole. The information gives us an idea of how fast device/operating system/browser environments improve on their own.

Using Zulip, an Open Source tool, for engaging participants in Wikimedia’s technical outreach programs

Zulip enables organizers and mentors to provide support and guidance to participants in each phase of technical outreach programs.

Google Code-In 2019: The next generation of technologists contribute to Wikimedia’s code

Each year the Google Code-in contest brings students and mentors from around the world together to improve their technical skills and to make contributions to the Wikimedia movement.

Organizing and running a developer room at FOSDEM

For FOSDEM 2020, the Wikimedia Performance Team organized a Web Performance devroom. In this post, they share their experience.

Fixing npm security issues immediately in MediaWiki projects

LibUp writes a commit message by mostly analyzing the diff, fixes up some changes, and pushes the commit to Gerrit to pass through CI and be merged. If npm is aware of the CVE ID for the security update, that will be mentioned in the commit message. Each package upgrade is tagged, so if you want to e.g. look for all commits that bumped MediaWiki Codesniffer to v26, it’s a quick search away.

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