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 21 Apr 2016. Next Meeting 5 May 2016.

=New Items for next meeting=

= Project Status =
 * 1) Usability Testing for Education Features T108620 (and Single Edit Tab)
 * 2) One more tomorrow, then done.
 * 3) Usability Survey of Notifications
 * 4) JMo: when should we close fr.wiki survey?
 * 5) Joe: Getting fewer than we thought.  close at 200?  Is that valid?  JMo: Yes.  At 176 now, 174 yesterday, trickling.
 * 6) Joe: let's stop it.  Nick: okay.
 * 7) TODO: Joe tell them to stop the survey.  JMo to start analysis and ping Benoît for translation of free text results.
 * 8) Joe: when will we have a report?  JMo: End of week after next, maybe incremental results if they are high-priority.
 * 9) UX testing of Notifications
 * 10) Have done four.  Results to be included in survey report (previous item).
 * 11) One more test pending.
 * 12) Move "Compact Language Links" from Beta to non-Beta https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links
 * 13) No update 21 Apr
 * 14) "Learnability of our Content" project (m:Research:Student use of free online information resources)
 * 15) About 200 responses, data looks good.  Initial analysis to be done by students.
 * 16) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 17) Went into production in Sep 2015, noticed uploads were getting deleted at a high rate.  Testing of alternatives showed that high deletion rate was not caused by the tool.
 * 18) Planning to do more A/B testing, working with Legal and CLs.  Open to ideas.
 * 19) Daisy: what exactly is happening?  James: people select that they are licensed even when they are not.
 * 20) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333)
 * 21) Trevor: maybe Nirzar would actually have time to finish this for us?  TODO: James to ask Nirzar to finish consolidating the research into a presentation for developers.
 * 22) Trevor: Ed is now joining Pau and Prateek in weekly meetings, could be on their plate.  If Nirzar is too busy, maybe fall back to this channel.
 * 23) Trevor: more broadly interested in getting developers more involved in UX testing.
 * 24) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 25) blocked by previous
 * 26) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems T100011, T86956
 * 27) Nick: Collab team was looking at this and wondering if they should be working on it.
 * 28) James: it's working too well - it gets used for other kinds of feedback that aren't appropriate and thus get mis-channeled and wasted.
 * 29) taking off the list for this meeting, no obvious next steps that this meeting can help with.
 * 30) Collab Team planning
 * 31) JMo: Pau forwarded some of their material and I've reviewed it; would be happy to meet with Joe and Pau (and maybe Amir) to give feedback.  Want to meet?
 * 32) Joe: would love to meet.
 * 33) TODO: JMo to book meeting (Joe, Amir, Pau, Daisy, Aaron, James, Roan, JMo, Nick)

=Discussion= Some people may be missing for next meeting in 2 weeks.