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 20 Oct 2015. Next Meeting 3 Nov 2015 or TBD.

New topics for next meeting:
= Project Status =
 * 1) Support unforeseen VE Launch issues
 * 2) no new issues
 * 3) Test VE Link Inspector 101166
 * 4) Nirzar: ready for testing.  Abbey: will have to test in Beta cluster, need to make test accounts.
 * 5) Test VE Education Features T108620
 * 6) Nirzar created a Phab ticket for education and ran through the spec with Trevor and James, with video and prototype.  Trevor and James approved it; the design as implemented is different.  TODO: Joel to follow up - Abbey, Nirzar, Joel, Trevor, James, Ed, Alex.  Abbey: some of the test setup on beta cluster is not ready (e.g., missing templates on test page).
 * 7) Abbey: Since Education is not ready, will do Link Inspector testing first, and then Education.  Would have preferred to do at the same time, but since recruiting is not required for this testing, separate testing is not as big a problem.
 * 8) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333, T106422)
 * 9) Jonathan: We intended to create a big self-serve data thing for people to use, but don't have time.  Will share with Nirzar, and incorporate into our work as we proceed.
 * 10) Trevor: could there be any written presentation of findings?  Abbey: Yes, that's the metrics presentation.  Nirzar: we need to condense that into 5 slides.  TODO: Nirzar to make short slides w/Ed, and present to editing.
 * 11) Abbey: Engineers should also just watch the videos.
 * 12) TODO: Trevor to figure out how to get Editing to watch videos.
 * 13) TODO: Jonathan to upload the videos to commons.
 * 14) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 15) Ed and Nirzar have met several times; came to conclusion on solutions to usability problems.  Don't know how it goes into the pipeline.
 * 16) Trevor: how can DR participate in this?  Validate Ed/Nirzar's recommended approaches?  Nirzar: Need to build prototypes before we can do that.  What fidelity would that be, wireframe, click-through, working product?  TODO: Joel follow up with James on what process he has in mind for moving forward with this, communicate that to all.
 * 17) Trevor: should we do full-fidelity testing?  Nirzar: our recommendations are already based on that.
 * 18) Releasing VE Mobile Heuristic Evaluation (T88756, T113061)
 * 19) James has no specific memory of a promise to publish, but agrees it should be published like all other research. (Results  )
 * 20) It's available publically, but hasn't been loudly announced.  Should it be?
 * 21) Nick: Send the link and suggested 1 sentence synopsis to Sherry and she can put it in the next VE Newsletter.  (TODO Abbey)
 * 22) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems T100011, T86956
 * 23) no update 20 Oct
 * 24) TODO: Trevor to figure out which team to work on it.
 * 25) Research on Curation Tools (exploratory) T112027
 * 26) In Design research backlog, blocked by Collab priorities.  On the backlog for Collaboration but low priority.  If it's resumed in Q3, will revisit this task. For now, we don't need to track it weekly anymore.
 * 27) Cross-wiki notification design (part of Echo) T114086
 * 28) first stage of research is completed; Pau and JMo presented at meeting today.  Pau will iterate on prototype and then we will re-test.
 * 29) Content Translation Translation Dashboard
 * 30) Trevor: they may have paused it.
 * 31) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 32) Ships tomorrow.
 * 33) Abbey: DR tested the upload from Commons, not on getting an image from your hard drive to commons and then to the page.  Did give some feedback to Prateek.  Still want to test, do we have time?
 * 34) Nirzar: we already did design feedback.  It's a soft launch, so we can test after launch. There is already a Phab task to improve the usability and Prateek said they won't annouce the tool until December.
 * 35) Abbey: Licensing issues seem like a problem.  Trevor: got approval from Legal to do something very simple.
 * 36) We will continue following up
 * 37) TODO: Trevor to make sure that any images uploaded via VE interface are so tagged, so we can identify them later in case there is a problem
 * 38) TODO: Nirzar cc'ing Abbey on Phabricator task; DR will test later.
 * 39) Card sort for Info Arch in toolbar in VE: T97001
 * 40) Paused - low priority for Editing/DR.
 * 41) "Concepts in broad user interaction" project
 * 42) JMo giving a pitch tonight.
 * 43) TODO: Trevor to follow up on this.
 * 44) Link recommendations in VisualEditor –  T107630
 * 45) Pau reviewed Nirzar's designs and provided feedback
 * 46) Nirzar: did a hackathon on link recommendation; might want to do a DR testing.  JMo been meeting with Leila and will have next steps.

Discussion

 * CL participation in this meeting?
 * Nick attended, agrees that it is valuable for CLs to participate.
 * Change the timing of the meeting by 1 week so as to not overlap with DR/Reading meetings?
 * No strong opinions one way or the other.
 * (Update post-meeting: shifting by 1 week AND moving to Wednesday would conflict with bi-weekly Editing pitch meeting, which has overlapping membership)
 * TODO: Joel to try and re-schedule to accommodate both CLs and DR/Reading check-in.