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 5 May 2016. Next Meeting 19 May 2016.

=New Items for next meeting=

= Project =
 * 1) Usability Testing for Education Features T108620 (and Single Edit Tab)
 * 2) Daisy planning to do writeup on more experienced editors. This week.
 * 3) Usability Survey of Notifications
 * 4) Survey was stopped
 * 5) JMo will be reporting on Mondy
 * 6) JMo is almost done with quantitative analysis, looking at English comments
 * 7) Sent French comments to Benoit
 * 8) New: gather input for "Edit Review" project.
 * 9) Edit Review = Tools for anti-vandalism, new page review, etc.
 * 10) Joe meeting with Nick and JMo today
 * 11) Want to start inviting selected users to communicate with us
 * 12) This replaces "Collab Team planning" from before
 * 13) possible invitee list now bumped to theoretical second meeting:
 * 14) Joe, Amir, Pau, Daisy, Aaron, James, Roan, JMo, Nick)
 * 15) UX testing of Notifications
 * 16) Finished five.  Analysis now separated from Survey report, work on it next week.
 * 17) Move "Compact Language Links" from Beta to non-Beta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links
 * 18) No update 5 May
 * 19) "Learnability of our Content" project (m:Research:Student use of free online information resources)
 * 20) JMo: have all the data, will start working on it next after Notification report
 * 21) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 22) No update 5 May
 * 23) Volker: testing showed no difference; James want to talk to ??
 * 24) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333)
 * 25) TODO: Joel to follow up with Trevor & James (cc Volker)
 * 26) Accessibility Consulting for user standardization
 * 27) Volker: I started to reach out to accessibility testing institutions in approach to make accessible color palette and several other accessibility workboard tasks.  Got support from Toby to go forward consulting with this.  Our knowledge is only expert-driven, not user-driven.  Haven't talked to Trevor yet on specifics.  Have also reached out to some users via community liaisons, but they aren't directly representative either.  Will be reaching out to more institutions; may invite Design Research to be conversation partner.
 * 28) JMo: DR will always be available to check in; if you need more time, need notice to get it on our docket.
 * 29) Nick: there is a wikiproject accessibility, which includes many users that have accessibility issues - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Accessibility#Userboxes
 * 30) Volker: some of those people are volunteering and it can take a very long time to get feedback.  consulting firms [are faster] but very expensive.
 * 31) Joe: ask for the non-profit rate.  Volker: still very expensive, lots of demand with small supply
 * 32) Met with 2 institutions, didn't work out.  now contacting several others.
 * 33) JMo: if you are having trouble getting people to come, you can offer them t-shirts and water bottles.  If you have some budget, we can work with Gretchen to do processing
 * 34) Joe: did that work?
 * 35) JMo: seems like we got higher rate and fewer no-shows.  We include the information in the invite.  Shipping can be very expensive, e.g., $50 to India.
 * 36) Volker: hourly rates in Bay Area for accessibility work is $180/hr, $150/hr
 * 37) Joel: have you talked to other developers about implementation?
 * 38) Volker: I am one of the developers; will make it easier for others because they won't have to worry about colors, buttons. Working on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accessibility_guide_for_developers

Discussion
JMo: Starting after May 13, Friday, until end of June, Abbey will be out on multi-national user study; JMo will be contact person for Design Research. cc Jonathan and Daisy on anything you send to Abbey that needs feedback.