How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast

Re:How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast by _joe on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @05:41PM (#8817151)

The win is _also_ about scale. The server CPU usage went down significantly - see http://bit.ly/1vqp1ki

So, more request can be served with a smaller number of servers.

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Re:How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast by schrodinger on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @09:13PM (#8817967)

Just curious, why did you use bit.ly there?

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Re:How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast by forgotpasswd3x on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @10:14PM (#8818099)

I'm curious too.

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Re:How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast by _joe on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @03:05AM (#8818586)

... just because I have that saved to use on IRC or anywhere else (like twitter) where a very long url would be inconvenient.

(I should've put a disclaimer there: I am one of the WMF engineers involved in the project).

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Re:How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast by metaprinter on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @04:07AM (#8818672)

Fyi, if you add a + to the end of any bitly URL, you'll see stats about the link. (Logged in users can set it to private but most times they don't)

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