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The Overflow Blog. Podcast Explaining the semiconductor shortage, and how it might end. Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? Featured on Meta. But it is possible to set up a user account with a pseudonymous username to allow you to edit anonymously.
However, using anonymous accounts for blatant misrepresentation and puffery - known as sock puppetry - is often spotted and the offending content challenged or removed by other editors.
Blatant self-promotion is frowned upon by the community and viewed as a conflict of interest. Anyway, as you don't control the page, less flattering information may soon be added by others. But examples of Wikispam, as it's sometimes called, are "speedily deleted" according to the website. You don't need to log in to the site to read or edit articles, but setting up an account and registering allows you to create your own pages, upload content and edit without your internet protocol IP address - the number that identifies a mobile phone or computer on a network - being visible to the public.
The Wiki administrators, who number around 1,, can usually identify the IP address of someone editing articles and this can be tracked to a rough location, enabling them to spot suspicious patterns of behaviour. Offending accounts can be suspended, without individuals necessarily being identified. If the IP address is different - you use a different computer or phone than the one you used before and, if you're being really sneaky, move location to do your editing - there's no reason why you can't set up another anonymous account and carry on as before.
HHVM observes the types present at runtime and generates machine code optimized to operate on these types. HHVM still fulfills the role of a PHP runtime interpreter, serving requests immediately upon starting up, without pre-compiling code.
But while running, HHVM analyzes the code in order to find opportunities for optimization. This way, it can be strategic about which code paths to study and optimize. Facebook publishes the code of HHVM under a free software license, and encourages reuse by other sites. MediaWiki was one of the first applications they showcased as possible use case. The performance gains we have observed during this gradual conversion in November and December include the following:.
There was already hope that this would make our servers run faster, but we were concerned about fidelity i.
We resumed work on the conversion in earnest this year, after a new version of HHVM had come out. Resolving fidelity issues required some effort, but it turned out well.
After we had already been working on the conversion for several months, Facebook approached us offering to donate some developer time to help with this task. Facebook developer Brett Simmers spent one month full-time with our team providing very valuable assistance, and Facebook also offered to make themselves available for other issues we might encounter.
Overall, the transition took about 6 months, with most of the work falling into one of the following three areas:. Six-thousand people visit the site every second, bringing a responsibility for the editors to present a diverse and fair platform. That's why we're very excited about projects like Women in Red, which seeks to identify and place more content on women on our platform Steven has been a large contributor to that project," Kinyanjui said. To put in to perspective what it took for Pruitt to become the top editor, he's been dedicating his free time to the site for 13 years.
The second-place editor is roughly , edits behind him, so his first place status seems safe, for now. Please enter email address to continue.
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