Wikimedia Search Team

The Search team was a subteam of Wikimedia Platform Engineering. In April 2015, it was merged into the Discovery Department. As of 2017, a Wikimedia Discovery/Search project existed. As of 2022, see Wikimedia Search Platform.

Mission
Provide unique and highly relevant search results on Wikimedia sites, increasing the value of our content to readers and providing tools that help editors make our content better.

Responsibilities

 * Extension:CirrusSearch
 * Wikidata query service
 * Wikibase indexing