On Friday, June 12, 2015, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:

This sounds a bit like we're speeding up Barack Obama himself. I make no comment on Mr. Obama's pace... but perhaps we should use "Obama's article" instead of the square brackets?

FB/G+ can be pretty much the same with (obviously) differently-formatted tags.

Joe

On 12 June 2015 at 06:48, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:
@mediawiki already retweeted this one earlier:
https://twitter.com/fbOpenSource/status/608347677735194626

But I agree that a more salient tweet would be nice. How about:

Thanks, @fbOpenSource, for speeding up [[Barack Obama]] by 19.4% via
@HipHopVM! http://hhvm.com/blog/9293/lockdown-results-and-hhvm-performance

and something similar on FB/G+.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Katherine Maher <kmaher@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Something for the socials?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ori Livneh <ori@wikimedia.org>
> Date: Thursday, June 11, 2015
> Subject: [Wmfall] Facebook's HHVM performance sprint retrospective
> highlights MediaWiki gains
> To: Staff All <wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Facebook's HHVM team just completed their first performance lockdown, which
> they spent focusing on the performance of open-source PHP frameworks under
> HHVM. The achievement which they chose to highlight in their blog posts is a
> gain of 19% in their MediaWiki performance benchmark, which is – you guessed
> it – a parse of the Barack Obama article.
>
> https://code.facebook.com/posts/902199373155728/-inside-the-hhvm-lockdown/
>
> http://hhvm.com/blog/9293/lockdown-results-and-hhvm-performance
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