Wikimedia Discovery

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

CirrusSearch
The CirrusSearch extension implements searching for MediaWiki using Elasticsearch, which is the search backend used at Wikimedia.

Maps
To provide better maps, 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.

APIs
API:Search and discovery lists the search APIs available and in development.

Members

 * Wes Moran, Vice President of Search & Discovery
 * Tomasz Finc, Director of Search & Discovery Engineering
 * Dan Garry, Product Manager
 * Moiz Syed, User Experience Designer
 * Oliver Keyes, Research Analyst
 * Yuri Astrakhan, Senior Software Engineer
 * Erik Bernhardson, Software Engineer
 * James Douglas, Senior Software Engineer
 * Nik Everett, Senior Software Engineer
 * Stas Malyshev, Senior Performance Engineer
 * Max Semenik, Software Engineer
 * Kevin Smith, Agile Coach

Roles and responsibilities
Roles and responsibilities for team members other than developers can be found here. The short form is:


 * VP: "Strategic Vision"
 * Director: "Managing People and Coordinating w/Engineering"
 * Product Manager: "Product Vision and Story Prioritization"
 * UX Design: "UX Design and Vision, and leading UI engineers"
 * Engineering Team Lead: "Architecture and Code Quality"
 * Engineer:
 * Agile Coach: "Facilitation and Process Improvement"

We are hiring. See https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us

Mailing list
Wikimedia-search

Checkin meeting minutes
Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting Minutes

Retrospective minutes
Retrospective 2015-05-06

Related Meetup groups

 * Bay Area NLP
 * San Francisco text
 * Elasticsearch San Francisco

Indirectly-related Meetup groups
These sorts of Meetup groups attract smart/enthusiastic people who like to spend their free time learning and solving problems:


 * Silicon Valley Java user group
 * San Francisco PHP
 * Bay Area Haskell users group
 * Scala study group
 * SF JavaScript
 * Oakland advanced Scala study group

Hackathon 2015
In Lyon, France, on 23-25 May. Wikimedia Hackathon 2015/Search and discovery

State of the Map US 2015
June 6-8. An annual conference for all OpenStreetMap users in New York, Yuri & Max attending. http://stateofthemap.us/

Wikimania 2015
In Mexico City, on 15-19 June. (Need a link here)

OpenAir 2015
https://openair2015.com/ (in SF on 04 June)

"OpenAir is the premier conference that focuses on creating engineering solutions to the challenges of matching. The brightest minds in the industry will come together to tackle such issues as search and discovery, trust, internationalization, mobile, identity, and infrastructure."

Smart Data Conference 2015
http://smartdata2015.dataversity.net/ (San Jose, 18-20 August)

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