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 17 Nov 2015. Next Meeting 1 Dec Nov 2015.

New topics for next meeting:
= Project Status =
 * 1) Test VE Link Inspector 101166 and Education Features T108620
 * 2) No updates 17 Nov 2015.
 * 3) Daisy is writing the protocol.
 * 4) Abbey was stuck on creating accounts - still an issue?  Yes, and also, where are we going to test it?
 * 5) options: Beta cluster or production.
 * 6) Beta cluster is slightly different than production, including having the BETA logo; some controls work slightly differently; not stable day to day.
 * 7) Production is more stable; could use test wikipedia.  Feature is in production.
 * 8) TODO: Daisy to discuss with Abbey and decide.
 * 9) Is this testing blocking anything?  Yes, IP launch, but that won't happen in 2015, but but if we uncover much to change, then we be in a time crunch.
 * 10) 2015-11-10: Merging Education testing back with Link Inspector since there is no longer any reason to separate them.
 * 11) Cross-wiki notification design (part of Echo) T114086
 * 12) Pau: same status.  There was a testing session; more planned but haven't synced with Jonathan.  More testing sessions needed.
 * 13) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 14) No updates 17 Nov 2015.
 * 15) Pending: Prateek has filed bugs and will fix them and then re-test.
 * 16) Content Translation – Translation Dashboard
 * 17) No change 17 Nov 2015; Pau did not have time to work on it.
 * 18) Pending: Pau need to organize a plan for research.
 * 19) Pending: J-Mo follow up with Leila about translation quality issues.
 * 20) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333, T106422)
 * 21) No change 17 Nov 2015.
 * 22) Pending: Joel to work with Trevor and Abbey to figure out who other than Nirzar can do this, or if Nirzar can do it.
 * 23) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems [T100011], T86956
 * 24) Pending: Trevor to figure out which team to work on it.
 * 25) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 26) No change 17 Nov 2015.
 * 27) Currently blocked in practice because we don't have any design concepts that are generally acceptable to all active participants.
 * 28) Trevor: we need a fresh set of eyes.
 * 29) Pau: could we create prototypes, is that blocked?
 * 30) Trevor: We already have working live software, but inter-reactions are very modal.  Nirzar was working on reducing modality but we haven't quite come to a well-balanced solution.  Yes, you could prototype some new ideas in a lightweight way.
 * 31) VE team will be busy until Thanksgiving; let's bump this up in priority in 1-2 meetings
 * 32) "Concepts in broad user interaction" project
 * 33) No update 17 Nov 2015

Discussion

 * Joel screwed up the cadence switch with today's meeting, but holidays are going to do even more. Until January, let's plan only one meeting ahead.  Next meeting is in 2 weeks (Dec 1).