Posts tagged: wwiki

Tue 23 July 2024 in MediaWiki

tagged mediawiki, urlshortener, wwiki

Building a less terrible URL shortener

The demise of goo.gl is a good opportunity to write about how we built a less terrible URL shortener for Wikimedia projects: w.wiki. (I actually started writing this blog post in 2016 and never got back to it, oops.) URL shorteners are generally a bad idea for a few main…

Fri 17 July 2020 in MediaWiki

tagged checker, python, rust, toolforge, wikisource, wwiki

Speeding up Toolforge tools with Redis

Over the past two weeks I significantly sped up two of my Toolforge tools by using Redis, a key-value database. The two tools, checker and shorturls were slow for different reasons, but now respond instantaneously. Note that I didn't do any proper benchmarking, it's just noticably faster. If you're not…