Design Research-Editing Department KIT

This is a bi-weekly meeting between the Design Research team and the leads of the Editing Department's teams (Collaboration, VisualEditor, Multimedia, Language, Parsing, Design) 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 13 Oct 2016. Next Meeting 3 Nov 2016.

=New Items for next meeting= = Projects = = Projects =
 * 1) New Wikitext Editor
 * 2) Testing blocked by bugs.
 * 3) James to notify Daisy when ready
 * 4) Recent Changes Pages
 * 5) have been having meetings
 * 6) Testing is ongoing; finished first round (5 participants), continuing with an updated prototype and second round (another 5 participants, a few vandlism fights and some newcomer welcomers/helpers)
 * 7) We are not doing "effectiveness testing"; that will happen after beta release.
 * 8) Should start planning how we're going to check in with people using the beta.  Joe.
 * 9) Edit Review Improvements Interviews
 * 10) JMo sent a link to the raw notes
 * 11) Joe thinks he's looked at most of them
 * 12) Nick hasn't read/seen most of them yet and wonders if there's a summary beyond the raw notes?
 * 13) Pau: there are notes from during the interviews.  I watched most of them.  Tried to put cards on the Trello board where there was user feedback.
 * 14) I would expect a summary, was expecting JMo to deliver that.
 * 15) TODO: Joel to ask JMo about a summary
 * 16) TODO: Daisy to ask Joel about JMo's summary
 * 17) Supporting Templates When Translating Articles ("STWTA")
 * 18) Daisy has already completed round of testing (5 content translation users)
 * 19) Accessibility Consulting for user standardization
 * 20) Volker: Still paused
 * 21) Task list / campaigns feature
 * 22) Amir: plans to start coding this, probably soon after Seattle. initially a lot of internal work, not so much UI work. probably not anything to test for another 1-2 months
 * 23) Pau: test that focuses on both, or separate tests
 * 24) Amir: for near timeline, testing templates redesign in production is more important in task list
 * 25) Conceptual development for Mobile long-form editing
 * 26) Paused.
 * 27) James: chat about it next week at offsite.
 * 28) CJK italics/emphasis user testing (Volker)
 * 29) Wonder if we have ability to recruit speakers of mandarin, korean, etc.
 * 30) have special case in UI challenge where cjk languages about italics, users of those languages can...
 * 31) question is: is this presentation of typography, do you prefer one or the other. italics on some views and there are proposals to change italics to a different way of emphasizing text.
 * 32) Daisy: reach out to CLs, or microsurvey, or quick unmoderated/guerrilla study
 * 33) Volker will follow-up with Daisy

=Discussion=