Hoi,
I have a few questions for you that I send to you well in advance. In a
previous exchange of emails I informed someone in your staff that search
functionality that works well for over 50% of our public had regressed in
functionality; it used to work it no longer does. The Special:MediaSearch
used to enable me to find images in Commons in Dutch. It no longer does. In
an exchange of emails that followed, I was told that after the integration
of text it no longer worked. The software works as designed, fulfills its
test cases and to use a technical term "shit happens". I worked in
computing myself and this is a typical scenario where department level
priorities impact company level priorities. To use another technical term,
that is when "shit hits the fan".
I am now a candidate for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Support for
our public is why I entered. I have the following questions.
- how does your department ensure that search functionality works
equally well in all the languages Wikimedia supports
- how do you ensure such functionality in multi language projects
like Commons
- how is the functionality for multi language testing embedded
- what proposals do you have to improve search functionality that will
help us share the sum of all knowledge that we have.
- what effect will they have for the whole of our public
I have proposed a Wikimania session where everyone is invited to bring
proposals that will particularly improve functionality for our public. When
I am elected, I expect to learn the proposals from the Wikimedia
organisation.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 21:49, Trey Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Search Platform Team
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds
> office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
> anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia
> Commons Query Service, etc.!
>
>
> Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
>
>
> Details for our next meeting:
>
> Date: Wednesday, July 14th, 2021 (not July 7 due to WMF holiday)
>
> Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 17:00-18:00
> CEST
>
> Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
>
> Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww
>
> Join by phone in the US: +1 786-701-6904 PIN: 262 122 849#
>
>
> Hope to talk to you in a week!
>
>
> Trey Jones
> Sr. Computational Linguist, Search Platform
> Wikimedia Foundation
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