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Which channels to use to contact the team

Urgent requests, breakage: #wikimedia-search ^connect
Simple questions, quick synchronous conversations: #wikimedia-search ^connect
Longer questions, request for help / clarification: discovery mailing list
Requests for help / work from the team: phab task, tagged with "Discovery-Search" or "Wikidata-Query-Service" (TBD: add link to "make a request")

Communication channels

Mailing lists

mail:discovery—A public mailing list about the Wikimedia Search Platform team and projects (formerly Discovery Department). Examples of topics would include:

Announcements, including major upcoming initiatives, completed major releases, quarterly or annual plans, requests for feedback or input
Technical discussions and brainstorming regarding our work:
- Search, Elastic, Cirrus, the Relevance Forge, and other relevant subjects
- Our dashboards or related analysis
Other team news, such as changes to team structure, significant changes to processes, changes in how we use phabricator or other tools like gerrit

The Search Platform team is also active and watching the following lists:

mail:wikidata: anything related to Wikidata Query Service
mail:commons-l: anything related to Wikimedia Commons Query Service
mail:wikitech-l: general technology

Phabricator

Phabricator tasks tagged with either "Discovery-Search" or with "Wikidata-Query-Service" will be triaged every Monday.

IRC channels

#wikimedia-search ^connect

Office Hours

The Search Platform Team usually holds office hours on the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search!

Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.

Weekly status updates

See Search Platform/Weekly Updates.

Meetup groups

San Francisco
- Directly relevant
  - Bay Area NLP (natural language processing, not neuro-linguistic programming)
  - San Francisco text
  - Elasticsearch San Francisco
- Indirectly related (these sorts of meetup groups attract smart/enthusiastic people who like to spend their free time learning and solving problems)