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 10 Nov 2015. Next Meeting 24 Nov 2015.

New topics for next meeting:
= Project Status =
 * 1) Support unforeseen VE Launch issues
 * 2) cutting this on 2015-11-10 as it's never come up in four months of discussion (anything that does come up goes instantly into a new item, so no need for this as a reminder)
 * 3) Test VE Link Inspector 101166 and Education Features T108620
 * 4) Daisy is writing the protocol.
 * 5) Abbey was stuck on creating accounts - still an issue?  Yes, and also, where are we going to test it?
 * 6) options: Beta cluster or production.
 * 7) Beta cluster is slightly different than production, including having the BETA logo; some controls work slightly differently; not stable day to day.
 * 8) Production is more stable; could use test wikipedia.  Feature is in production.
 * 9) TODO: Daisy to discuss with Abbey and decide.
 * 10) Is this testing blocking anything?  Yes, IP launch, but that won't happen in 2015, but but if we uncover much to change, then we be in a time crunch.
 * 11) 2015-11-10: Merging Education testing back with Link Inspector since there is no longer any reason to separate them.
 * 12) Cross-wiki notification design (part of Echo) T114086
 * 13) We did iterate on the prototype and testing is in progress.
 * 14) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 15) Shipped.
 * 16) Abbey, Prateek, and Daisy did a heuristic review.  Prateek has filed bugs and will fix them and then re-test.
 * 17) Content Translation – Translation Dashboard
 * 18) Completed a prototype for dashboard for translation campaigns
 * 19) Pau need to organize a plan for research.
 * 20) J-Mo: really concerned about quality of article translation recommendations within content translation, may block usability testing
 * 21) About 435 suggestions were used to start a translation (using a basic recommendation strategy based on missing featured articles, not even Leila's algorithm).
 * 22) TODO: J-Mo follow up with Leila about translation quality issues.
 * 23) Trevor: mobile design has been postponed for 1+ quarters behind higher-priority work.
 * 24) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333, T106422)
 * 25) Jonathan uploaded the videos
 * 26) next task: Review the videos and make a highlight reel of short clips that developers should watch to set their expectations of real-world usage
 * 27) Nirzar was going to make slides as a stepping stone to getting Editing devs to watch them, but has moved to Reading
 * 28) TODO: Joel to work with Trevor and Abbey to figure out who other than Nirzar can do this, or if Nirzar can do it.
 * 29) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems [T100011], T86956
 * 30) no update 10 Nov
 * 31) Current usage is about 1 in 100,000 users (on the upload wizard) - we have some changes documented that could increase this but need someone to work on it.
 * 32) TODO: Trevor to figure out which team to work on it.
 * 33) Card sort for Info Arch in toolbar in VE: T97001
 * 34) Paused - low priority for Editing/DR.
 * 35) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 36) Currently blocked in practice because we don't have any design concepts that are generally acceptable to all active participants.
 * 37) Trevor: we need a fresh set of eyes.
 * 38) Pau: could we create prototypes, is that blocked?
 * 39) Trevor: We already have working live software, but inter-reactions are very modal.  Nirzar was working on reducing modality but we haven't quite come to a well-balanced solution.  Yes, you could prototype some new ideas in a lightweight way.
 * 40) VE team will be busy until Thanksgiving; let's bump this up in priority in 1-2 meetings
 * 41) Releasing VE Mobile Heuristic Evaluation (T88756, T113061)
 * 42) Daisy: a link is on Mediawiki and I sent a link to Sherry and Erica: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Heuristic_evaluation_of_visual_editing_on_Android,_Mobile_October_2015
 * 43) Done 2015-11-10 (delete next meeting)
 * 44) "Concepts in broad user interaction" project
 * 45) JMo pitched to UW Masters students that they should research learnability of content of wikipedia as MS Capstone projects.  Four were interested but nobody picked the project by the deadline.
 * 46) One UW professor wants to led a group in Jan-May to do a survey, how students use free Internet knowledge resources to supplement their studies
 * 47) the overall research output we can get from this approach will be lower and slower than if it had been a capstone project, but the quality should be high

Discussion

 * CL participation in this meeting?
 * Nick attended, agrees that it is valuable for CLs to participate.
 * Joel tried to move this meeting to a different time slot than 9 am Tuesday, none were available
 * Next step: see if CLs can move their meeting, or else send a rotating representative
 * We will meet in 2 weeks but that could be a very light meeting or an email-only meeting.