On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> If we are to survive the next 10 years as the top 10 website, we should > focus externally more, and start building more stuff that our readers care > about. I totally agree that WMF has failed on many occasions here, and we, > the community, were right (when I recall the first deployment of the VE I > grit my teeth). But ultimately we need to be really able to move on, to be > able to move forward. > > dj > > Dariuz, when I first heard about this, I understood it to mean that the Foundation was seeking to fix the Wikimedia search function, which is really very poor. But this seems to be a proposal to create an entirely new search engine to complement Google, which will cost many millions. Sarah _______________________________________________ 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>
