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.zimmerman@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.
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Arthur Richards arichards@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 gwicke@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
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