Talk:Wikimedia Engineering/June 2017 changes

Search
The recent work on Special:Search, such as Cross-wiki Search Result Improvements and many smaller projects of which one can often find some trace in User:TJones (WMF)/Notes, was long overdue and has managed to restore Wikimedia wikis' lead in some areas. There are languages where I now find much better search results with our own search engine than in Google (I'm thinking of declension and typos in non-romance and non-anglosaxon languages for instance), something we should be proud of.

Does the line about being "programmatic" mean that useful work on specific goals, such as serving smaller projects and "small" languages better in search, will continue? --Nemo 06:39, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Contributors
I'm happy that one of the areas is now named after a term which is actually used in Wikimedia projects, unlike "Readers" (which doesn't make sense). It remains to be seen which distinctions actually help serve our target audiences rather than erect artificial barriers. --Nemo 06:39, 8 June 2017 (UTC)