Wikimedia Discovery

Wikimedia Foundation projects Search and Discovery We build the path of anonymous discovery to a trusted and relevant source of knowledge. Group: Engineering Start: 2015-04-21 Team members: Teams: Design team Moiz Syed Engineering team Tomasz Finc, Oliver Keyes, Yuri Astrakhan, Erik Bernhardson, James Douglas, Nik Everett, Stas Malyshev, Max Semenik Product Management team Dan Garry From the Team Practices Group Kevin Smith Management: Wes Moran

The Search and Discovery Department of Wikimedia Engineering is building the path of anonymous discovery to a trusted and relevant source of knowledge.

Projects

CirrusSearch

The CirrusSearch extension implements searching for MediaWiki using Elasticsearch and is the search backend used at WMF.

OpenStreetMap

The OpenStreetMap/Production maps cluster is a project to make OpenStreetMap available on all Wikimedia projects, at a scale sufficient for their widespread usage.

Wikidata Query Service (WDQS)

Wikidata query service provides a way for tools like WikiGrok to access Wikidata data, via a SPARQL API.

Process

Mailing List

Wikimedia-search

IRC Channel

#wikimedia-search ^connect

Meeting Minutes

Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting Minutes

Hackathon 2015

Wikimedia Hackathon 2015/Search and discovery

Deployers

Useful reference for who can deploy code. Its nice to know who to bug if you need something:

Person	MediaWiki Deployer	Elasticsearch Deployer	Maps Deployer	Graphoid Deployer	Portals Deployer
dcausse
ebernhardsen
jan_drewniak
gehel