Re: [Wikitech-l] What is the status of Cirrus Search development?

[Dan Garry]

Billinghurst,

Thanks for the email. I'd like to address two points in my reply.

Firstly, I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear that development of our search
systems is going strong. In the reorganisation of the Engineering and
Product Development department in April, search definitely gained a bigger
focus. Of the thirteen people in the Discovery Department
,
nine of those spend a significant portion of their time on search; the
breakdown by focus being four backend engineers, one frontend engineer (who
joined the team three days ago), one designer, one product manager, and two
data analysts. It's pretty safe to say there's more resources assigned to
search now than there ever has been in the past.

Secondly, I'm a little confused by your assertion that there's been
silence. In fact, on this very list, I've made a number of posts to this
list over the course of the past few months regarding search. Examples: [1]

[2]

[3]

[4] .
I've not written a post on this list for all of our work, merely the most
worth announcing. A big communication obstacle has been that we've been
missing a community liaison for a long time, and we're hiring one
 to
rectify that. I've also talked about search at the monthly metrics meeting
twice, at Wikimania last year, and in several other talks which are
available on the WMF channel on YouTube. Perhaps this was a terminology
issue; were you were expecting me to add "CirrusSearch" to all my
communications? So, I guess I'll respond to your query with my own query:
what do you think we (meaning both the Discovery Department *and* interested
users such as yourself) could've done differently so that you did not have
this perception that there has been silence? One idea that I have had
having posed this question is the availability of a central resource where
all such communications like talks, presentations and relevant emails could
be collated, so that I could answer queries such as yours with a link to
this list. Would that be helpful?

Thanks,
Dan

On 3 October 2015 at 21:28, billinghurst  wrote:

> For a while Cirrus Search was the "bee's knees"[1] around here, and we were
> got to the stage that all wikis were moved onto this search functionality.
>
> Then silence.  Complete and utter silence.
>
> Presumably there has been stuff happening out of the public eye, and I am
> not wanting to dig into personal areas, however, the silence on what was a
> key development is very disappointing.  Can we please have an update.
> Thanks.
>
> Regards, Billinghurst
> [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bee's_knees
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikitech-l] What is the status of Cirrus Search development?

[Pine W]

Hi, I have a hunch that discussions about search moved to the Discovery
mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery

Pine
On Oct 3, 2015 9:28 PM, "billinghurst"  wrote:

> For a while Cirrus Search was the "bee's knees"[1] around here, and we were
> got to the stage that all wikis were moved onto this search functionality.
>
> Then silence.  Complete and utter silence.
>
> Presumably there has been stuff happening out of the public eye, and I am
> not wanting to dig into personal areas, however, the silence on what was a
> key development is very disappointing.  Can we please have an update.
> Thanks.
>
> Regards, Billinghurst
> [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bee's_knees
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[Wikitech-l] What is the status of Cirrus Search development?

[billinghurst]

For a while Cirrus Search was the "bee's knees"[1] around here, and we were
got to the stage that all wikis were moved onto this search functionality.

Then silence.  Complete and utter silence.

Presumably there has been stuff happening out of the public eye, and I am
not wanting to dig into personal areas, however, the silence on what was a
key development is very disappointing.  Can we please have an update.
Thanks.

Regards, Billinghurst
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bee's_knees
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