Talk:Wikimedia Discovery

Activity?
According to Wikimedia Foundation Engineering reorganization FAQ, "Search and Discovery" is a team, not an activity. If so, AFAICS it shouldn't use that template and it should be named Wikimedia Search and Discovery or similar (available information on "and" vs. "&" and casing is inconsistent). --Nemo 17:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * +1, the other point is, that "search" redirects to "Search and Discovery" (in my point of view a vote for deleting, searching for "Search", I normally don't think about to find a page of a team), and for "mediawiki search" in Google this page has a relatively good rank, but it doesn't describe a function in the mediawiki software, or (like you said) an activity. So i suggest to move this page to a page with a clear title. --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 08:00, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The page has been moved to Discovery, so no longer has the word "search" in it, nor "&". --KSmith (WMF) (talk) 22:59, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Nemo just moved this page, without consultation. I don't necessarily object, but some discussion would have been polite. Unlike all the other Wikimedia xxx team pages mentioned at team prefix:Wikimedia, Discovery is an entire Department, like Reading and Editing. --KSmith (WMF) (talk) 05:35, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * There is a discussion about WMF team pages, their names and locations, at meta:Meta:Babel which I hope you will contribute to. Rogol Domedonfors (talk) 20:59, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

CirrusSearch component
There are several interesting reports in the CirrusSearch component. In Phabricator I see quite some activity around recent things, while reports formerly considered normal/high priority (i.e. useful to improve search results) are mostly inactive. Does someone plan to go through all the reports and triage them? It would probably take less than a day for one of the ElasticSearch persons. --Nemo 11:28, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * user:Nemo bis, have you noticed any improvement in the management of older reports? John Vandenberg (talk) 04:39, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Community Liaison job opening at WMF
Hi. There's a new job posting for a Community Liaison to work with the Discovery department. Please pass it along, if you know someone who might be interested or a good fit. Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:06, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Offsite homepage report
This page links to http://ironholds.org/misc/homepage_presentation.html, which I initially thought was a broken page because the '>' link is not easy to find (ironic for the Discovery team?) due to color scheme used. I assume it was work for WMF, and therefore should be posted onto a Wikimedia server, preferably a public wiki, and not a private website without a free content license. Could that report be posted on MediaWiki, User:Okeyes (WMF), please? John Vandenberg (talk) 02:58, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge there's nowhere to host this kind of report.If you can point me to a public wikimedia server that lets me host arbitrary HTML content, I would be interested to hear where. I have tried to export it as PDF but the format doesn't make it easy; I'll probably put some work into putting it together as a more structured report a la our other ones.
 * Your claim that it lacks a free content license is not the case; it is MIT-licensed and openly released, as is all of my work. That it lacks a copyright template is because I do not believe in releasing my work with any restrictions, which means CC-0 or MIT. I would be interested to know how you encountered the report (I've had multiple people poke me about it so I assume it's being discussed somewhere?) Ironholds (talk) 23:43, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia portal only
Is wikipedia.org the only portal that is under the purview of Discovery? This is strictly a clarification question about scope, as everything I see related to this appears to be wikipedia.org only, but the other portals are not explicitly excluded from the scope.

I assume wikipedia.org is the only portal with traffic significant enough to warrant it being a legitimate target for optimising knowledge pathways at present, but will improvements made to it also trickle down to the other portals? John Vandenberg (talk) 03:03, 6 January 2016 (UTC)