That's an excellent news. :) On 6 January 2016 at 19:16, Wes Moran <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > I’m happy to announce that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has > awarded an exploratory grant of $250,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation’s > Discovery department [1], in order to conduct research and prototyping to > improve how people discover and engage with information on Wikipedia and > Wikimedia projects. > > The Discovery team has begun six months of research and prototyping, with > the goal of building better experiences to help people discover knowledge. > You can learn more about the team’s work here > <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/23/search-and-discovery-on-wikipedia/>. > > Our deliverables include: > > > - User testing and research on current user flows to understand the > search and discovery experience > - Creation and maintenance of a dashboard of core metrics to use in > product development > - Research on search relevancy and the possibility of integrating open > data sources > - Open discussion with the Wikimedia community of volunteer editors > - Creation of sample prototypes to showcase discovery possibilities > > The need to improve our search experience has long been recognized across > the Wikimedia projects. We need better ways to help everyone discover the > most relevant, reliable information on Wikipedia and its sister projects. > For > example, while people can search within one project (like Wikipedia or > Wikimedia Commons), they can’t easily search across the different projects. > Some people still receive zero results if they search and do not include > the right words in a search. There are open data sources that have the > potential to improve how people find information, and that should be > explored. > > We look forward to discussing these projects with communities and anyone > with an interest. You can collaborate with the Discovery department in the > following ways: > > - Subscribe <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery> to > the Discovery team’s public mailing list > - Read about these projects and others at the MediaWiki Discovery > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery> page > - Reach out to the Discovery team on their IRC channel: > #wikimedia-discovery on Freenode <https://freenode.net/>. > > A press release and blog post will follow shortly, and more information in > the form of an FAQ has been posted here [2]. > > Wes Moran, VP of Product > > User: WMoran_(WMF) > > [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery > [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/KnightFAQ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
