Thanks @Krinkle for all your guidance and code reviews in the involved
patches!
~ SD0001
On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 22:39, Krinkle <krinkle(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
I'm happy to share that the next Web Perf Hero
award goes to SD0001, in
recognition of their many contributions and positive impact on the
performance of Wikimedia software. I'll share two major examples.
SD0001 implemented Package files
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Package_files> for Gadgets
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets> (T198758
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198758>). This enables gadget
maintainers to bundle JSON files, unpacked via require(). This improves
performance by avoiding delays from extra web requests. It also improves
security by allowing safe contributions to JSON pages, as pure data with
validated syntax on-edit. Previously, admins on Wikimedia wikis for
example, would need script editing access for this and rely on copy-paste
instructions from another person via the talk page.
SD0001 also introduced Module::getSkins in ResourceLoader, and used it in
the startup module
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Architecture#Front-end> to
optimise away unneeded module registrations
<https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2019/09/19/wikipedias-javascript-initialisation-on-a-budget/>.
We just shipped the first adoption of this for Gadgets (T236603
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236603>). In the future, we'll use
this to optimise MediaWiki's own skin modules as well.
This award is given once a quarter, and manifests as a Phabricator badge.
More information and past recipients:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Performance_Team/Web_Perf_Hero_awa…
Phabricator badge:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/badges/view/17/
-- Timo Tijhof, on behalf of WMF Performance Team.
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