BT

Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

Write for InfoQ

Topics

Choose your language

InfoQ Homepage Presentations Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site

Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site

Bookmarks
01:05:44

Summary

Brion Vibber discusses the challenges of working with user communities, social bottlenecks, the Wikipedia article deletion process, scalability of software vs communities, new approaches to scaling communities, ongoing challenges with MediaWiki community, using git to scale the code commit process, automated Wikipedia edit filtering, flagged protection pages, and remaining challenges to face.

Bio

Currently CTO and Senior Software Architect for the Wikimedia Foundation, Brion Vibber has spent his career since 2002 growing up with Wikipedia’s community and software development. He lives in San Francisco in his native California, but still misses the Florida sunsets from his time at Wikimedia’s original offices in St Petersburg.

About the conference

Starting in 1986, OOPSLA Conference has proven to be the cradle of many techniques and methodologies that have become mainstream over the years: OOP, Patterns, AOP, XP, Unit Testing, UML, Wiki, and Refactoring. Gaining its prestige with 3 academic tracks, OOPSLA Conference has managed to attract researchers, educators and developers every year. The event is sponsored by ACM.

Recorded at:

Dec 23, 2009

Hello stranger!

You need to Register an InfoQ account or or login to post comments. But there's so much more behind being registered.

Get the most out of the InfoQ experience.

Allowed html: a,b,br,blockquote,i,li,pre,u,ul,p

Community comments

  • MP3 link gives 404

    by Ben Damman,

    Your message is awaiting moderation. Thank you for participating in the discussion.

    :(

  • Re: MP3 link gives 404

    by Slobojan Ryan,

    Your message is awaiting moderation. Thank you for participating in the discussion.

    Hi Ben,

    Sorry, there was a typo in the filename - that's been fixed now. Thanks for the heads-up!

    Ryan Slobojan
    Chief Editor, InfoQ.com

  • Awesome!

    by Jeroen De Dauw,

    Your message is awaiting moderation. Thank you for participating in the discussion.

    Brion - woooot! That's so awesome :)

Allowed html: a,b,br,blockquote,i,li,pre,u,ul,p

Allowed html: a,b,br,blockquote,i,li,pre,u,ul,p

BT