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 8 Dec 2015. Next Meeting 22 Dec 2015.

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= Project Status =
 * 1) Usability Testing for Education Features T108620
 * 2) Not sure if Education has been tested
 * 3) TODO:JMo to follow up with Daisy
 * 4) Two test sessions complete, one more pending.
 * 5) Joe: Can we get one more in before the end of the year?  Had a cancel yesterday.
 * 6) JMo: We have at least 3 sessions in the next 4 days.  Our recruiter is trying to book more; not sure which are for cross-wiki.
 * 7) Pau: there is one planned for cross-wiki and one planned to be rescheduled.  Maybe we can decide what to do after we see whether or not tomorrow's test happens.  JMo: okay, will follow up tomorrow.
 * 8) Discussion of paying for usability tests.  TODO: JMo to follow up with lawyers.  TODO: Joel to ask Trevor for mozilla contact to ask about if/how they pay for UX testing - give info to JMo for followup.
 * 9) Pau: maybe we can provide a discount on the shop, instead?  Or a lottery.
 * 10) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 11) No update 8 Dec Nov 2015.
 * 12) Content Translation – Translation Dashboard
 * 13) Have scheduled sessions for testing.  Have run one test session already.
 * 14) Amir: got the session recording link; haven't watched it yet.  Is that supposed to be private?
 * 15) JMo: yes, the participant chooses when they complete the form.  Can share within WMF, but sharing the link per-person.
 * 16) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333)
 * 17) TODO: followup for "Joel to tell James to stash these tasks where he will see them when mobile work is resumed"
 * 18) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems [T100011], T86956
 * 19) No update 8 Dec 2015: Trevor to figure out which team to work on it.
 * 20) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 21) Summary of current issue: Where the toolbar should be are figured out, but we don't have enough room on mobile for the current toolbar.  Should we go modal?
 * 22) TODO: Followup for "Make sure James/Lindsey Ann make a decision about putting this into Q3 goals, including Design people."
 * 23) "Learnability of our Content" (was "Concepts in broad user interaction") project
 * 24) [T120760]
 * 25) JMo will be working with Guillaume, will be circulating more information in January
 * 26) Need to be able to understand what kind of content readers need, to provide tools to editors to make that content

Discussion
CLs would like to attend but we couldn't solve the meeting time conflict. Nick will continue to monitor notes and welcomes questions.