Excellent. Just as a reminder: English-language video training for VisualEditor is in the queue for publication by mid-April, led by yours truly and with the assistance of a few collaborators. (:
Pine On Mar 19, 2015 4:51 PM, "Jared Zimmerman" <jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama?veaction=edit just loaded in 2 > seconds. Team is on fire. don't put them out. > > > > > > *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 <aricha...@wikimedia.org> > 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 <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 > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Arthur Richards > > Team Practices Manager > > [[User:Awjrichards]] > > IRC: awjr > > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
