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 22 Sep 2015. Next Meeting 6 Oct 2015.

= Projects =
 * 1) Support unforeseen VE Launch issues
 * 2) No news
 * 3) Present Mobile research from Wikimania
 * 4) Not quite ready.  There is a shorter and longer version.  Will present short version at Monthly Metrics Sep 24.
 * 5) Abbey and DR team present mobile contributions research to full editing team T106422
 * 6) VE Wikimania Research wrap-up: T101333
 * 7) Analysis of Wikimania research: T106422
 * 8) Next step: check in in 2 weeks and schedule presentation to editing team if we haven't already
 * 9) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 10) Next step: conceptual meeting between DR and Ed/VE.
 * 11) Agenda includes: Review known bugs and usability issues from a usability perspective.
 * 12) TODO: Abbey to schedule meeting with Ed/Abbey/Nirzar/James/Daisy/Joel
 * 13) VE Mobile Exploratory Research
 * 14) All 4 DR team members to write report to maximize number of perspectives
 * 15) TODO: Abbey: meet and discuss how to design this
 * 16) Create and execute a test plan for the VE mobile prototype: T88756, T113061
 * 17) A prototype was completed. Daisy and Abbey did a heuristic evaluation of ve on mobile (both iOS and Android)
 * 18) the conclusion is that there are a lot of bugs and things to fix before usability testing can be done.
 * 19) other things are inconsistent rendering of various parts of the VE, inconsistent behaviors
 * 20) Results
 * 21) TODO: Abbey and James to discuss the public promise and decide what if anything to publish.
 * 22) VE Issue with cursor near link
 * 23) James to send Abbey link for testing with experienced editors VisualEditor when cursor is near a link
 * 24) Need to evaluate both experiences
 * 25) Change of direction; does not need its own DR evaluation
 * 26) TODO: James report status
 * 27) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems T100011
 * 28)  Erica's request to fix the feedback tool UI and calls to action
 * 29) New Mockups are up on Phabricator; Nirzar got design review.
 * 30) Nirzar worked on a slightly larger scope than the original request, covering some related issues. T86956
 * 31) TODO: James and Trevor to look over Nirzar's mockups
 * 32) Research on Curation Tools (exploratory) T100650
 * 33) On hold
 * 34) VE Education Features T108620
 * 35) In Development
 * 36) Welcome message is done and in production.
 * 37) VE Link Inspector 101166
 * 38) Nirzar, James, Abbey met and agreed on three things to fix.
 * 39) Work in progress.
 * 40) There will be some usability testing; Nirzar and Abbey to coordinate
 * 41) Content Translation Translation Dashboard
 * 42) Testing mainly Translation lists 104353
 * 43) Have completed several usability tests.  report
 * 44) Adjust the protocol and prepare to test new designs
 * 45) Jonathan to review Pau's design
 * 46) Amir: Mobile in CX parent task: 106396, DR task: 108700
 * 47) Not expecting to do anything in the next quarter due to resource limitations
 * 48) next meeting - cut from list if still inactive
 * 49) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 50) No change - low priority for Nirzar.
 * 51) Card sort for Info Arch in toolbar in VE: T97001
 * 52) Paused - low priority for Editing/DR.
 * 53) "Concepts in broad user interaction" project
 * 54) Initiation meeting tomorrow (Sep 23)
 * 55) Link recommendations in VisualEditor –  T107630
 * 56) work in progress; Nirzar will complete one more interation and then show to Pau

Discussion:
 * We need to have CLs in our meetings
 * Abbey talked to Rachel and their team meeting is at the same time.
 * TODO: Joel to see if we can move this meeting to accommodate.
 * T100308
 * need help understanding what this one is. Does it need research?
 * should be part of broader research on editing tools in general
 * Abbey suggests survey
 * TODO: James to update