Hoi, I have a few questions for you that I send to you well in advance. In a previous exchange of emails I informed someone in your staff that search functionality that works well for over 50% of our public had regressed in functionality; it used to work it no longer does. The Special:MediaSearch used to enable me to find images in Commons in Dutch. It no longer does. In an exchange of emails that followed, I was told that after the integration of text it no longer worked. The software works as designed, fulfills its test cases and to use a technical term "shit happens". I worked in computing myself and this is a typical scenario where department level priorities impact company level priorities. To use another technical term, that is when "shit hits the fan". I am now a candidate for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Support for our public is why I entered. I have the following questions. - how does your department ensure that search functionality works equally well in all the languages Wikimedia supports - how do you ensure such functionality in multi language projects like Commons - how is the functionality for multi language testing embedded - what proposals do you have to improve search functionality that will help us share the sum of all knowledge that we have. - what effect will they have for the whole of our public I have proposed a Wikimania session where everyone is invited to bring proposals that will particularly improve functionality for our public. When I am elected, I expect to learn the proposals from the Wikimedia organisation. Thanks, GerardM On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 21:49, Trey Jones <tjones(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: