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*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M +1 415 609 4043 \\ @jaredzimmerman <http://loo.ms/g0> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > Awesome! That is a truly significant improvement and quite an achievement. > High-fives all around :D > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> > 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall >> >> > > > -- > Arthur Richards > Team Practices Manager > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
