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 16 Feb 2016. Next Meeting 1 Mar 2016.

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 * #0 VisualEditor release
 * SET live in test and waiting for DR heuristic and new user testing. Live on Hungarian Wikipedia for experienced user testing as well, and soon to another wiki. Waiting on results and tweaking before going to the English Wikipedia, which is a blocker for the A/B test to be begun in March.
 * No other significant movement. Minor improvements in areas like tables, mobile and integration.

= Project Status =
 * 1) UX Testing Notifications
 * 2) Got 10 test candidates from Benoit and Nick.  Samantha doing recruiting, will help schedule user tests
 * 3) survey to get broader feedback
 * 4) Testing time period?  hard to predict.  Soonest would be next week.  Recruiting process isn't reliable enough to predict.
 * 5) Joe: w/Pau, need to get script ready, will work on that this week
 * 6) Pau: Prototype has been completed LINK: http://pauginer.github.io/prototypes/notifications/notification-page/index.html  (also with variants for read/unread by adding #dot and #check at the end of the url)
 * 7) Joe: Roan is aware of status
 * 8) Content Translation – Translation Dashboard
 * 9) JMo: working to get Amir final report on Content Translation Campaigns by this Friday
 * 10) Paying for testers
 * 11) JMo: probably going to give people free Wikipedia 15 t-shirts from the store.
 * 12) "I usability tested Wikipedia and all I was allowed to get according to their 501(c)3 bylaws was this lousy t-shirt."
 * 13) If there's a budget issue, JMo will talk to product leads about using their budget
 * 14) Usability Testing for Education Features T108620 (and Single Edit Tab)
 * 15) James: Ready to test New User Education features and Single Edit Tab
 * 16) Rolling out to hu.wiki in parallel for feedback
 * 17) JMo: DR is booked, will wait until Abbey and Daisy are back (end of Feb)
 * 18) "Learnability of our Content" (was "   Concepts in broad user interaction") project
 * 19) JMo: Going really well.  Almost completed survey that will be going to UW students
 * 20) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 21) NO UPDATE 16 Feb.
 * 22) A/B test (T120867) inconclusive.
 * 23) check for further action
 * 24) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333)
 * 25) NO UPDATE 16 Feb
 * 26) Fix Feedback Tool UI Problems [T100011], T86956
 * 27) NO UPDATE 16 Feb
 * 28) Make plan to deal with known usability issues in VE Mobile
 * 29) NO UPDATE 16 Feb

=Discussion= none this week