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Permuting Khmer: Restructuring Khmer syllables for search

Khmer is written left-to-right in syllable groups, without spaces between words—though that’s not its most complicated feature!

Celebrating 600,000 commits for Wikimedia

A reflection on the developer services we offer and our community of developers.

A Better Toolforge: upgrading the Kubernetes cluster

This article focuses on how we made a better Toolforge by integrating a newer version of Kubernetes and, along with it, some more modern workflows.

What does it mean to “keep community in the loop” when building algorithms for Wikipedia?

We argue that if you follow three steps, you can “keep community in the loop” as you build algorithmic systems, making you more likely to avoid catastrophic and community-damaging consequences.

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.