On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl 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