Talk:Wikimedia Discovery/Knight FAQ

questions

 * 1) $250,000 grant is to start when?
 * 2)  Quoting teh 5 specific activities from the article: User testing and research on current user behavior to understand the search and discovery experience. (how and where and why?)
 * 3) Creation and maintenance of a dashboard of core metrics (of what?) to use in product development. (what product?)
 * 4) Research on search relevancy and the possibility of integrating open data sources.(why search relevancy ?)
 * 5) Open discussion with the Wikimedia community of volunteer editors and technology experts.(about what? And why does that need money? Could do it now)
 * 6) Creation of prototypes (of what?)to showcase discovery possibilities.

--Wuerzele (talk) 23:32, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * A couple unofficial responses, from someone involved with the Discovery team, who has had no involvement with Knight or the grant itself:
 * Dashboard: See http://searchdata.wmflabs.org/metrics/ for examples of what I think they probably mean. I believe "product development" here refers to whatever product(s) are necessary to meet user needs, which so far is things like improving Cirrus search.
 * Why relevancy? Because (anecdotally) searching from within wikimedia sites often produces irrelevant results, and/or fails to produce relevant ones.
 * --KSmith (WMF) (talk) 00:31, 16 January 2016 (UTC)