Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-06-03/Technology report

Things are getting SPDYier

Brion Vibber Day

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Over the past few weeks, developers have been working on improving Wikimedia's performance when users connect to it using

, using multiple subdomains was a performance advantage due to a limit of the number of concurrent requests per domain. With SPDY, a domain can have an unlimited number of connections, but each individual domain has the same connection overhead. Users may still notice resources downloading from bits.wikimedia.org due to on-wiki user scripts and gadgets, which should be updated.

In other news:

• The "WikiGrok" project to send microcontributions to Wikidata has been put on hold ([2])
• The breaking change planned for the API's default continuation format has been scheduled for the 1.26wmf12 branch, and a list of the most affected bots has been provided. Please contact bot operators on the list to make sure they update their code! ([3])
• The Pywikibot team has published a first release candidate for the new 2.0 version for initial testing ([4])