Amazing. Even for larger articles, it seems to load quicker, or at least as quick, as the classic edit box. Superb job!
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:52 PM Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Great job team > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > > > Earlier this morning, we made some good progress towards a faster > > VisualEditor experience by loading the HTML from > > https://rest.wikimedia.org/, the REST content API that entered beta > > production a bit over a week ago [1]. Preliminary data shows a drop of > mean > > client HTML load times by close to 40% from about 1.9 seconds to 1.2 > > seconds. > > > > > > The reasons for this speed-up are primarily > > > > > > a reduction in HTML size by 30-40%, achieved by storing page metadata > > separately in RESTBase [2], and > > > > storing (rather than caching) the HTML of all Wikipedia articles, thus > > eliminating expensive cache misses. > > > > > > So far we have enabled this optimization on all Wikipedias. Other > projects > > with VisualEditor support will follow over the next week. There are also > a > > lot more optimizations in the pipeline. Eventually, we hope to completely > > eliminate the need to re-load the page for editing by using the same > > Parsoid-generated HTML for regular page views. > > > > > > While many people helped to make RESTBase and the content API a reality > (see > > the original announcement [1]), I want to specially call out Marko > Obrovac > > for doing much of the integration work with MediaWiki and the > VisualEditor > > extension. > > > > > > I hope that you enjoy the newly faster VisualEditor experience as much > as we > > do! > > > > > > Sincerely -- > > > > > > Gabriel Wicke > > > > > > Principal Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation > > > > > > [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015- > March/081135.html > > > > [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wmfall mailing list > > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
