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 Dec 2015. Next Meeting 5 Jan 2016 by email.

New topics for next meeting:
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= Project Status =
 * 1) Usability Testing for Education Features T108620
 * 2) Daisy: Need to ask James where to find it, and accounts needed for testing.
 * 3) Daisy to join VE Standup this morning
 * 4) 2016-01-19 – Done?
 * 5) Paying for testers
 * 6) JMo emailed Manprit, who seems to think we could either compensate or offer store credit
 * 7) JMo to follow up with Manprit
 * 8) JMo and Joel contacted Mozilla contacts, did not get clear information on their practices
 * 9) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 10) No update 22 Dec 2015.
 * 11) 2016-01-19 – A/B test (T120867) inconclusive.
 * 12) Content Translation – Translation Dashboard
 * 13) Pau: ran three testing sessions, one more booked for January to observe in person during All Hands
 * 14) Going as planned, results are positive from first two
 * 15) UX Testing Notifications
 * 16) Current round (4 participants) complete; JMo working on report T116741
 * 17) JMo: waiting for Abbey to return (Jan 4) to figure out resources for next round (focused on notification page). Probably can do it end of January
 * 18) Roan asked to finalize notification page design by end of January, but we could maybe change the final design in February.
 * 19) JMo: bottleneck is recruiting - could we pull people from the first group?  Don't have a big pool of qualified editor testers for the kind of study.
 * 20) Grace: Abbey's working tomorrow, so we could bring it up in tomorrow's meeting.  TODO for Jonathan and Grace.
 * 21) "Learnability of our Content" (was "Concepts in broad user interaction") project
 * 22) [T120760]
 * 23) Will start Jan 4.  9 Students, 1 Prof, JMo and Guillaume.
 * 24) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Publi cly_available_online_learning_resource_survey
 * 25) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333)
 * 26) No Change 22 Dec 2015.
 * 27) followup for "Joel to tell James to stash these tasks where he will see them when mobile work is resumed"
 * 28) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems [T100011], T86956
 * 29) No update 22 Dec 2015: Trevor to figure out which team to work on it.
 * 30) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 31) Summary of current issue: Where the toolbar should be are figured out, but we don't have enough room on mobile for the current toolbar.  Should we go modal?
 * 32) No Change 22 Dec 2015. Followup for "Make sure James/Lindsey Ann make a decision about putting this into Q3 goals, including Design people."

Next meeting conflicts with Dev Summit; let's conduct it by email instead.