Thanks, @Nomsterio! I will take a look at the draft and share comments and suggestions.

Note: For your awareness, I will be out on vacation next week and won't be posting to the blog until the following week: 16-20 November.

@Nomsterio I took a first pass at this. Please don't be discouraged by the number of edits/suggestions. :-) The post is good and super-informative! It just needed a little more organizational structure. I made some additions and some obvious edits and would like you to go through and accept or decline my suggestions. After it will need some wordsmithing and editing, but I'd like to see what it looks like with the adjusted organizational structure.

In T267185#6625467, @srodlund wrote:

@Nomsterio I took a first pass at this. Please don't be discouraged by the number of edits/suggestions. :-) The post is good and super-informative! It just needed a little more organizational structure. I made some additions and some obvious edits and would like you to go through and accept or decline my suggestions. After it will need some wordsmithing and editing, but I'd like to see what it looks like with the adjusted organizational structure.

Thanks for all the love you're putting into this! It's the opposite of discouraging. I'll go through the suggestions shortly.

@Nomsterio I went through and made some additional suggestions. Once you accept them, I think this will be very close to done!

Would you mind uploading the images to Commons and sharing the links with me? Also, do you have an image in mind for the "Featured Image" that will appear at the top of the page?

@Nomsterio I saw that you accepted changes on the doc -- If you feel this is ready, I can move it over to the blog to post early next week. Let me know.

One idea, for the featured image we could use the big version of the Sloth/Anteater photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myresluger2.jpg

As a total aside, I ended up falling down a Wikipedia rabbit-hole and learning all about the Xenarthra family of animals. I didn't know sloths and anteaters were related before reading this post!

In T267185#6637100, @srodlund wrote:

@Nomsterio I saw that you accepted changes on the doc -- If you feel this is ready, I can move it over to the blog to post early next week. Let me know.

Yes, let's move forward!

In T267185#6637239, @srodlund wrote:

One idea, for the featured image we could use the big version of the Sloth/Anteater photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myresluger2.jpg

Good idea!

As a total aside, I ended up falling down a Wikipedia rabbit-hole and learning all about the Xenarthra family of animals. I didn't know sloths and anteaters were related before reading this post!

Hehe yes it's an interesting fact I also didn't know :)
Could be a good ending to the article

Perfect! I'm moving this over to the blog for formatting and plan on posting on Monday 23 November! I Will let you know once it is published!

Thanks!

@Nomsterio Hi Noam! I just published this: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/11/23/web-performance-case-study-wikimedia-preview-popups/

Before I send out announcements on Twitter will you take a look over this and let me know if you see anything that needs to be changed or fixed?

@srodlund one thing that might need to get fixed, title included, is that product refers to this feature as "Page previews". That's the name of the product, if you will, which is different than the name of the MediaWiki extension.

Okay, I switched this back to draft for now, because that seems like a big-ish issue.

Would you prefer the title is "Web Performance Case Study: Wikimedia Page Previews?" And are there specific places in the piece we should change this?

The code base is called "Popups" (or "Popups extension for MediaWiki"). The feature is labelled and documented toward end-users as "Page Previews". The issue was with the phrase "Preview popups" which was neither.

These are specific to Wikipedia currently, so we could also use "Web performance case study: Wikipedia Page Previews", if we want to.

I just went through the post and did a search and replace for "Page previews" and changed it to "Wikipedia page previews" including in the title. Do you feel this resolves the issue?

@srodlund it does! I've fixed the article's slug as well, to match the new title. You can go ahead and re-publish it. Thanks!

Thank you for updating the slug! This is now re-published! https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/11/23/web-performance-case-study-wikipedia-page-previews/

Looks great! Let's tweet it
Thanks @srodlund

I've edited the post just now (specifically the image credits) to unlink the figures from Commons since they're not hotlinked anyway and were nominated for deletion on Commons due to possibly being out of project scope for it (and would then turn 404).

For the first screenshot, which contains the photo and large readable parts of the article text, I've also replaced the caption with the updated attribution that Commons editors have placed on the file's description there - to comply with the relevant licenses and attribution for the article.