Category Archives: wikipedia

Spikes are not fun anymore

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Domas Mituzas

English Wikipedia just scored “three million articles”, so I thought I’d give some more numbers and perspectives :) Four years ago we observed impressive +50% traffic spike on Wikipedia – people came in to read about the new pope. Back … Continue reading →

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Board again (perhaps)

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Domas Mituzas

Tomorrow voting for Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election starts – and Yours truly is a candidate. You can find most of my views on various issues in our question pages (I was somewhat boiling when answering the What will … Continue reading →

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Knight’s Cross!

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Domas Mituzas

We had very special State Award Ceremony today. Special, as it happens at the year we celebrate “thousand years of Lithuania”, special as it is the last one given by our very special President Valdas Adamkus. Though for me, it … Continue reading →

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embarrassment

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Domas Mituzas

So, we had a major embarrassment last night. It consisted of multiple factors: We don’t have parallelism coordinator for our most cpu-intensive task at Wikipedia, so it can work on same job in ten, hundred, thousand threads across the cluster … Continue reading →

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I loved Encarta

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Domas Mituzas

That happened long before Wikipedia. I loved Encarta. Well, before Encarta, I used to read this thing a lot: But then Encarta arrived and I loved it. It did fit into single CD and didn’t take too much space on … Continue reading →

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I’m a creative commoner

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Domas Mituzas

Lately Creative Commons is becoming very dominant topic in my life. First of all, I see all the people in free culture world holding their breath and waiting for Wikipedia switch to CC license. I’m waiting for that too – … Continue reading →

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Tim is now vocal

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Domas Mituzas

Tim is one of most humble and intelligent developers I’ve ever met – and we’re extremely happy having him at Wikimedia. Now he has a blog, where the first entry is already epic by any standards. I mentioned the IE … Continue reading →

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Knol

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Domas Mituzas

There isn’t much to talk about Knol technology – it is either nicely engineered or missing (they probably thought that search is main tool for collaboration). Of course, many issues are already covered by others, but… My first look was … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia at Velocity conference

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Domas Mituzas

Next Monday I’ll be presenting (if jetlag doesn’t kill me) at Velocity 2008 – webops and performance conference. It won’t be my first time talking about Wikipedia infrastructure, but this time people will know the technology and scaling methods anyway. … Continue reading →

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Board

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Domas Mituzas

Exciting times, I’m joining the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. That means lots of work on what is strong community organization, supporting the modern day wonders.

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