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Category Archives: wikipedia
Spikes are not fun anymore
English Wikipedia just scored “three million articles”, so I thought I’d give some more numbers and perspectives :) Four years ago we observed impressive +50% traffic spike on Wikipedia – people came in to read about the new pope. Back … Continue reading
Board again (perhaps)
Tomorrow voting for Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election starts – and Yours truly is a candidate. You can find most of my views on various issues in our question pages (I was somewhat boiling when answering the What will … Continue reading
embarrassment
So, we had a major embarrassment last night. It consisted of multiple factors: We don’t have parallelism coordinator for our most cpu-intensive task at Wikipedia, so it can work on same job in ten, hundred, thousand threads across the cluster … Continue reading
I loved Encarta
That happened long before Wikipedia. I loved Encarta. Well, before Encarta, I used to read this thing a lot: But then Encarta arrived and I loved it. It did fit into single CD and didn’t take too much space on … Continue reading
I'm a creative commoner
Lately Creative Commons is becoming very dominant topic in my life. First of all, I see all the people in free culture world holding their breath and waiting for Wikipedia switch to CC license. I’m waiting for that too – … Continue reading
Tim is now vocal
Tim is one of most humble and intelligent developers I’ve ever met – and we’re extremely happy having him at Wikimedia. Now he has a blog, where the first entry is already epic by any standards. I mentioned the IE … Continue reading
Knol
There isn’t much to talk about Knol technology – it is either nicely engineered or missing (they probably thought that search is main tool for collaboration). Of course, many issues are already covered by others, but… My first look was … Continue reading
Wikipedia at Velocity conference
Next Monday I’ll be presenting (if jetlag doesn’t kill me) at Velocity 2008 – webops and performance conference. It won’t be my first time talking about Wikipedia infrastructure, but this time people will know the technology and scaling methods anyway. … Continue reading
5.0 journal: various issues, replication prefetching, our branch
First of all, I have to apologize about some of my previous remark on 5.0 performance. I passed ‘-g’ CFLAGS to my build, and that replaced default ‘-O2′. Compiling MySQL without -O2 or -O3 makes it slower. Apparently, much slower. … Continue reading
Posted in mysql, wikipedia, wikitech
Tagged 5.0, innodb, launchpad, maatkit, optimization, replication
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