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Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
How we achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
APIs as a product: Investing in the current and next generation of technical contributors
Wikipedia is coming up on its 25th birthday, and that would not have been possible without the Wikimedia technical volunteer…
Promoting events and WikiProjects
The Campaigns team at WMF has released two features that allow organizers to promote events and WikiProjects on the wikis:…
Wikimedia Cloud VPS: IPv6 support
Wikimedia Cloud VPS is a service offered by the Wikimedia Foundation, built using OpenStack and managed by the Wikimedia Cloud…
Wikidata Query Service graph database reload at home, 2025 edition
This post is about importing Wikidata into the graph database technology used for hosting the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). The post includes details on…
How Many Languages Does Wikimedia Search Support?
TL;DR: On-wiki search “supports” a lot of “languages”. “Search supports more than 50 language varieties” is a defensible position to take. “Search supports…
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