WebAssembly 2025 chapter

[tunetheweb]

Closes #4090

Staged version: https://webassembly-2025-dot-webalmanac.uk.r.appspot.com/en/2025/webassembly
Staged featured quotes: https://webassembly-2025-dot-webalmanac.uk.r.appspot.com/en/2025/?feat=webassembly#featured-chapter

[tunetheweb]

@nrllh @nimeshgit since we're running out of time I've taken the liberty of converting the current chapter to markdown and editing it. Please work further in this branch.

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[tunetheweb]

@nimeshgit I'm not sure if you were planning on writing more but I think this is good to merge.

I redid some of the stats to make them more percentages based and moved around the order to a more logical one IMHO.

I think this is good to merge so it makes the launch but let me know if you have any concerns?

[nimeshgit]

Hi Barry, Let me check out and update you further.

[nimeshgit]

Thank you Barry, We appreciated your help for initiating staging phase.
Please have below concerns in staging,

1. Banner is not updated -- We have in draft.
2. Found broken link in drop down menu of the section : Chart Page ranking group
   Actual :
   https://github.com/HTTPArchive/almanac.httparchive.org/blob/main/sql/2025/webassembly/rankings.sql
   Expected :
   https://github.com/HTTPArchive/almanac.httparchive.org/blob/main/sql/2025/webassembly/page_rankings.sql
3. Missing section : Reference -- We have in draft.

@tunetheweb @nrllh

[tunetheweb]

1. Oh I hadn’t noted you’d changed that! It’s kinda nice the way it reflects the latest details but it’s not something we’ve done before—we’ve reused the same image each year for each chapter. So this would be inconsistent. We’d also need high-quality versions of the image. If you can get me that, then can consider this more. But would need to create the usual 5 versions and not sure we have time for that. Anyway will merge this as is for now and can update that later.
2. Noted will fix. I update the stat to include secondary pages too so changed it from “pages” to “sites” so the old SQL name didn’t make sense.
3. Not sure what you mean as had another quick look at the draft and can’t see it. But on my phone at the moment so maybe missing it. Can you give more details?

[tunetheweb]

Oh for 2 I see I included the renamed sql file in this PR. But it’s now in the main branch yet until we merge this. So that explains that. Will be fine after we merge.

[nimeshgit]

1.Please, share the dimensions of images we are looking for this.
I understood the priorities, ..may be later we would have.
3. I have tag you on the reference details in our chapter resources / planning doc.

Regards

[tunetheweb]

1. Please look at https://github.com/HTTPArchive/almanac.httparchive.org/tree/main/src/static/images/2021/webassembly. There are five hero* images. Update those keeping same dimensions. Then open a separate PR to add new versions to 2025 dir. And also update src/config/2025.json to say WebAssembly hero image is now in 2025 dir and not 2021.

2. will fix.

[tunetheweb]

Added the links throughout the text (more the Web Almanac style) in 7c5325b.

This is good to merge! Feel free to open the other PR for the hero image if you get to it.

[nimeshgit]

Please, have PR 4362