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 6 Oct 2015. Next Meeting 20 Oct 2015.

New topics for next meeting

 * Change the timing of the meeting by 1 week so as to not overlap with DR/Reading meetings?

= Projects =
 * 1) Support unforeseen VE Launch issues
 * 2) Abbey: Nirzar says link inspector is 98% ready and DR should test it
 * 3) Abbey: James said education is very nearly ready, so maybe we should wait and test link inspector and education at the same time (and do as soon as we can)
 * 4) Present Mobile research from Wikimania
 * 5) Presented at monthly metrics ( T106422)
 * 6) TO DO: schedule presentation to editing team  T101333, T106422
 * 7) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 8) DR/Ed/Nirzar met to review known bugs and usability issues from a usability perspective., Nirzar and Ed are working on these issues.
 * 9) iOS has many issues that may be challenging - Ed suggests testing on Android only right now
 * 10) Create and execute a test plan for the VE mobile prototype: T88756, T113061
 * 11) Blocked by usability issues (previous item)
 * 12) A prototype was completed. Daisy and Abbey did a heuristic evaluation of ve on mobile (both iOS and Android)
 * 13) TODO: Joel followup with James on public promise to publish (Results  )
 * 14) VE Issue with cursor near link
 * 15) TODO: James report status
 * 16) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems T100011, T86956
 * 17) no update 6 Oct
 * 18) Research on Curation Tools (exploratory) T100650
 * 19) no update 6 Oct
 * 20) VE Education Features T108620
 * 21) See above - waiting to test
 * 22) VE Link Inspector 101166
 * 23) See above - waiting to test
 * 24) There will be some usability testing; TODONirzar and Abbey to coordinate
 * 25) Cross-wiki notification design
 * 26) added to project list 6 Oct, get full status next meeting
 * 27) Content Translation Translation Dashboard
 * 28) 6 Oct: waiting for progress on design for cross-wiki notifications
 * 29) protocol was reviewed; did some testing.  want to evolve that and do more things (re: campaign organizers) but that is paused
 * 30) Testing mainly Translation lists 104353
 * 31) Have completed several usability tests.  report
 * 32) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 33) Oct 6: James/Ed trying to finalize/release
 * 34) TODO: Abbey to follow up on DR involvement
 * 35) Card sort for Info Arch in toolbar in VE: T97001
 * 36) Paused - low priority for Editing/DR.
 * 37) "Concepts in broad user interaction" project
 * 38) There was a meeting, talked about research concepts.
 * 39) next meeting in 2 weeks on Thursday
 * 40) Link recommendations in VisualEditor –  T107630
 * 41) Pau reviewed Nirzar's designs and provided feedback

Discussion:
 * CL participation in this meeting?
 * CLs reviewed last meeting notes and did not see the need for them to attend
 * TODO: Joel to send minutes (ask Rachel who) for a few meetings to verify this