- Now Google is joining Wikipedia and others in going from MySQL to MariaDB http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/google_mariadb_mysql_migration/ 52 comments sysadmin
- Wikipedia has switched from MySQL to MariaDB 5.5! http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariadb/ 13 comments opensource
- Wikipedia moving from MySQL to MariaDB http://www.zdnet.com/wikipedia-moving-from-mysql-to-mariadb-7000008912/ 55 comments technology
- Recently, Wikipedia was moving to MariaDB | Now Red Hat ditches MySQL, switches to MariaDB http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/60292-red-hat-ditches-mysql-switches-to-mariadb 34 comments programming
- [quora] Why does Wikipedia use MySQL as a data store rather than a NoSQL database since it scales and will be economic? http://qr.ae/tut9p6 165 comments programming
- Free (as in free beer and free speech) 238-slide MySQL query optimization course created by the Wikipedia DBA, updated to 5.7 (and including source) https://github.com/jynus/query-optimization 6 comments mysql