Amazing. Even for larger articles, it seems to load quicker, or at least as quick, as the classic edit box. Superb job!
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:52 PM Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Great job team
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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