Design Research-Editing Department KIT

This is a bi-weekly meeting between the Design Research team and the leads of the Editing Vertical teams (Collaboration (Flow), Wikitext, VisualEditor, mobile editors, Multimedia, Content Translation, Upload Wizard) to coordinate and plan Design Research work. This meeting is intended to clarify priorities, define work, schedule work, manage conflicts, share findings, and ensure Design Research and Editing stay aligned in their work. See the Meeting Standard Operating Procedure.

Last meeting 19 May 2016. Next Meeting 2 Jun 2016.

=New Items for next meeting=

= Project =
 * 1) Usability Survey of Notifications
 * 2) All done
 * 3) New: gather input for "Edit Review" project.
 * 4) Trying to define a project that's meant to begin in 6 weeks, FY2017Q1.
 * 5) Working on User Consultations with JMo, Benoît, Nick, Pau
 * 6) JMo: I am recruiting for an initial set of interviews
 * 7) Joe: we got approval to offer t-shirt incentives
 * 8) New user support community, Teahouse, welcoming committee
 * 9) Joe: I am as well
 * 10) Huggle community
 * 11) Samantha B can help us to schedule interviews.
 * 12) Had a concept for a "theoretical second meeting" with Joe, Amir, Pau, Daisy, Aaron, James, Roan, JMo, Nick, Benoît, maybe to lay out a research plan.
 * 13) Have already met with Aaron
 * 14) Maybe could use the Editing Dep't Goals Jamboree to cover remaining topics?
 * 15) Joe: meeting has happened, have been meeting weekly
 * 16) Joe: Would be useful to set deadlines.
 * 17) JMo: Done with this round no earlier than 3rd of June, at conference that week, to be realistic say June 10th.
 * 18) Begin scheduling next week.
 * 19) Three Design Research big topics
 * 20) DR has three big, old VE items on their board but no sense of priority; wants to remove them from their Phabricator board if possible.
 * 21) TODO: Joel to follow up with James
 * 22) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113638 Back and Undo buttons ...
 * 23) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99274 Emphasize VE's save button ...
 * 24) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93325 VisualEditor mobile design
 * 25) UX testing of Notifications
 * 26) JMo: email to present was for this?  Joe: have some of the info, but team would find a summary presentation interesting
 * 27) JMo: I will present to Collaboration team next week.
 * 28) Move "Compact Language Links" from Beta to non-Beta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links
 * 29) Amir: During this quarter, Language team is not working much on content translation, catching up on other projects.  This is most notable one
 * 30) Long list of language links on the side will become shorter.  More of a reading feature.  Only for desktop.  Will coordinate with mobile developers.
 * 31) We shared the plan - did anyone get it?
 * 32) JMo: I commented on it.
 * 33) Most design research is already done, now going out of beta.
 * 34) "Learnability of our Content" project (m:Research:Student use of free online information resources)
 * 35) JMo: UW students are doing data analysis. JMo will present results to product team stakeholders in mid -June
 * 36) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 37) Volker: testing showed no difference; James wanted to find out more about statistics of who uses it.
 * 38) Volker: Yesterday at CC organized event at Medium. Was talking to designers about their user testing around choosing licenses when publishing on Medium. Will follow-up with Medium designers and if useful put learnings into task for comparison.
 * 39) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333)
 * 40) No update May 19
 * 41) Accessibility Consulting for user standardization
 * 42) No update May 19th
 * 43) Joe: did get approval and budget for t-shirts for [...]

= Discussion =
 * 1) Need James at these meetings, especially now that VE Launch weekly meeting is ended.
 * 2) Amir: want to ask some VE designers.  I sent email yesterday re: I've been measuring how frequently nowiki insertion happens by visualEditor.  Most frequently happens around links.  Was there any design research around how links are edited?
 * 3) Daisy: yes there was user testing around link editor and citation editor.