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 2 Jun 2016. Next Meeting 16 Jun 2016.

=New Items for next meeting= Add items here at any time.

= Projects = =Discussion= Joel: could be a month or more until next live meeting; holler if you are stalled and we can try async meeting or other options.
 * 1) Gather input for "Edit Review" project.
 * 2) JMo: Interviews in progress
 * 3) Joe: haven't seem more invitations since the first ones from Samantha.  have asked her.
 * 4) JMo: Joe, follow up with her by e-mail and cc me.
 * 5) Joe: Still a June 10 deadline?
 * 6) JMo: still seems reasonable; sending more interview invites, want to talk to Articles for Creation people
 * 7) Joe: working on more questions; send notes for interview TODO
 * 8) JMo: send [...] TODO
 * 9) Joe: Heads-up that I anticipate that the Edit Review project will need continuing support from Design Research
 * 10) New Wikitext Editor
 * 11) FY2017Q1 goals include "work more strongly on consistent wikitext editor, as beta feature"
 * 12) James: talking about "A new wikitext editor, designed like the visual editor, integrated into its workflow, and with all its tools, is available as a Beta Feature on desktop" ....  Would be value in DR consult on that, and on ongoing discussions.
 * 13) JMo: timeline? James: plan is to ship a beta feature by September
 * 14) JMo: should have a meeting to talk through [concept and requirements].  James, your schedule is tighter, can you book something.  James is out of country.  TODO for James. if you could add Daisy to this meeting too. thanks!
 * 15) Three Design Research big topics
 * 16) JMo: Still need these?  James: Yes.  Wikitext takes priority.
 * 17) Followup next meeting
 * 18) The items:
 * 19) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113638 Back and Undo buttons ...
 * 20) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99274 Emphasize VE's save button ...
 * 21) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93325 VisualEditor mobile design
 * 22) UX testing of Notifications
 * 23) Done.  Remove at next meeting.
 * 24) Move "Compact Language Links" from Beta to non-Beta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links
 * 25) No further followup for this meeting - drop at next meeting if Amir confirms.
 * 26) "Learnability of our Content" project (m:Research:Student use of free online information resources)
 * 27) No update
 * 28) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 29) Question to James: James: we ran A/B test in December, people just clicked anything until they could upload.  not top priority.
 * 30)  TODO: Volker to set up a meeting with James (no sooner than July) about Medium event; current status of A/B testing.  Also Legal.
 * 31) James: also, more fundamental questions about consent from users.  Different patterns in use.
 * 32) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333)
 * 33) This overlaps with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93325 VisualEditor mobile design.
 * 34) What is the priority of this, if it's behind wikitext editor?  Is it low?
 * 35) James: VE team isn't working on it because haven't been able to come up with conceptual solutions. The lack of a compelling model, which would have to come from research (and not VE team), is what's blocking this.
 * 36) So "this" is not just writing up last year's research, but also figuring out a research strategy.
 * 37) TODO: Joel to talk to Trevor about getting Nirzar (or somebody) to take this again.
 * 38) Accessibility Consulting for user standardization
 * 39) Volker: Next week is UX offsite, will see results from there first