MediaWiki Engineering/Guides/Frontend performance practices - Wikitech

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia and other free knowledge and open data projects. These projects are made possible by a global community who, together with the Foundation, comprise the “Wikimedia movement”. The Wikimedia movement is united by a vision: to bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We talked with Timo Tijhof, Principal Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, to find out how the organization approaches security and performance at scale.

How does an open philosophy jive with best practices in performance and security? In short, we're selective in our dependencies and audit our own upstream sources. Progressive enhancement not only makes for a fast and accessible site, I argue it's also the cheaper choice in the long run!