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This is an accepted submission for Wikimania 2012.

Submission no.

605

Title of the submission
Building a Chat feature on MediaWiki
Type of submission
presentation
Author of the submission
Tomasz Odrobny, Danny Horn
E-mail address
tomek@wikia-inc.com
Username
Tomasz Odrobny
Country of origin
Poland, USA
Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Wikia
Personal homepage or blog
http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Central
Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)

Last year, Wikia built a new Chat feature for our wiki communities. Using an IRC base wouldn't give us the functionality that we needed, so we built our own chat using Node.js, Backbone.js and Redis.

Each wiki community has its own chat room, so we needed to build a feature that could scale up to a site with 3 million users in thousands of active chat rooms. So far, we've hit a peak of 4,000 chat users in a day, with 2,000 simultaneous connections in 600 chat rooms -- all on one server!

The Chat feature is completely integrated with our wikis; it shares the login session with the wiki account, and uses the same user profile information, avatars, edit counts, and user rights. It uses core MediaWiki internationalization, and allows some wikitext syntax.

In this session, we will demonstrate the feature, and describe how we overcame the technical challenges.

Track
Technology and Infrastructure
Length of presentation/talk (if other than 25 minutes, specify how long)
25 Minutes
Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
Yes


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