Design Research-Editing Department KIT

Last meeting 28 July 2015

Action Items
 * Action: make sure there is a Phab ticket for each item on the list and that they are all tagged "#design_research_backlog"

Project Review
 * 1) Support unforeseen VE Launch issues
 * 2) No news 28 July
 * 3) Flow: Exploratory Workflows Research (T101331)
 * 4) output: short deck of findings; after Wikimania, a more detailed report.  prioritized list of processes.
 * 5) deck finished: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Flow_workflow_interviews_-_initial_findings_June_2015.pdf
 * 6) Jonathan working on final report: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Community_process_workflow_interviews_(June_2015)
 * 7) May interview one more person
 * 8) Or, this person could be the first person for the next round
 * Q: Trevor was going to talk to Lila to confirm this priority over exploratory research in Flow general (30 June: not yet)
 * 1) We think this happened
 * 2) Flow: Exploratory Notifications Research Phab. Ticket?
 * 3) Same pattern of work as Workflows research
 * 4) Danny and Jonathan to continue working together on this
 * 5) VE Education Features
 * 6) Some new work will land this week
 * 7) should we re-test or re-assess education options?
 * 8) Finalized on 2nd approach; Nirzar created a document for that approach, needs design feedback
 * 9) First, a design meeting for education.  Second, a "product" meeting for education to confirm the approach.
 * 10) VE Link Inspector (T101166)
 * 11) Still a few previously planned tasks not yet completed
 * 12) Usability tests should happen after those tasks are done
 * 13) Currently stalled waiting for developer attention; could be weeks of dev work
 * 14) Search and Discovery of content within talk pages and flow (T96997)
 * 15) Completed.
 * 16) Content Translation Translation Dashboard
 * 17) Met at Wikimania.  Discussed priorities for next couple of months.
 * 18) Priority for implementation is article suggestions.
 * 19) ContentTranslation: Translation lists T104353
 * 20) Priority for research is translation lists.
 * 21) Entry points is a low priority currently
 * 22) VE Mobile Research (independent from Demo effort T101333)
 * 23) Got 14 interviews at Wikimania
 * 24) User Research to write up report
 * 25) Also did a survey, got 50 responses, now starting to analyze interview and survey data
 * 26) User Research created a presentation on editing experience for new and casual editors
 * 27) Will publish more broadly
 * 28) Upcoming: change to the behavior of VisualEditor when cursor is near a link
 * 29) "entering into the text of a link becomes a positive action"
 * 30) flagged for Nirzar
 * 31) had been avoiding this for various reasons but appears necessary due to language support issues
 * 32) probably a fairly constrained UI, but we can do some exploration around it
 * 33) Next Step: VE team makes a clear design and shares with Abbey and Nirzar for review
 * 34) Amir would like to review as well
 * 35) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor
 * 36) Kaity was working on this a long time ago, and then Pau, and Pratik is working on it now
 * 37) Current design is similar
 * 38) Will need usability review (first Heuristic, then User-based testing if necessary)
 * 39) Desire is to ship by September 2015

Confirmed that we will continue with current meeting format:
 * current time and attendees as-is
 * take notes in Wikitext in Etherpad, then publish on wiki
 * Wiki page contains current notes; old notes are in wiki page history (note that this is an unusual pattern; may need to clarify or modify it to meet all use cases)