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 WMF.

OpenStreetMap
The 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.

Team member 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"
 * Agile Coach: "Facilitation and Process Improvement"

Mailing List
Wikimedia-search

Meeting Minutes
Wikimedia Search Team/Meeting Minutes

Local SF meetups on directly relevant topics

 * http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-NLP/
 * http://www.meetup.com/sf-text/ (run by a friend of James)
 * http://www.meetup.com/Elasticsearch-San-Francisco/

Local SF meetups on tangentially-relevant topics
These sorts of meetups attract smart/enthusiastic people who like to spend their free time learning and solving problems:


 * http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/
 * http://www.meetup.com/sf-php/
 * http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Haskell-Users-Group/ (run by James)
 * http://www.meetup.com/scala-study-group/ (run by James)
 * http://www.meetup.com/jsmeetup/
 * http://www.meetup.com/oakland-scala/

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

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."

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