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 Jun 2016. Next Meeting 14 Jul 2016.

=New Items for next meeting= Add items here at any time.

= Projects =
 * 1) Gather input for "Edit Review" project.
 * 2) JMo: Two interviews today, up to 2 more if we need them.  Do we need to talk to to more beyond afc?
 * 3) Joe: Huggle user today at 4. [...]
 * 4) Nick: Have we asked non-English-primary users?
 * 5) JMo: TODO: let's schedule 30 min late this week or early next week to get a sense of what we want to do next with research. +Pau, Nick, optional Aaron
 * 6) Joe: make it later today or tomorrow since I'm traveling next week or Monday morning PT.
 * 7) JMo to tell Samantha to tell pending users that we aren't booking more until next week or later.
 * 8) Joe: Have leads on a few French users
 * 9) New Wikitext Editor
 * 10) No FY2017Q1 goals include "work more strongly on consistent wikitext editor, as beta feature"
 * 11) STILL TODO for James to book meeting with JMo, Joel, Daisy.
 * 12) Three Design Research big topics
 * 13) Blocked pending meeting above.
 * 14) The items:
 * 15) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113638 Back and Undo buttons ...
 * 16) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99274 Emphasize VE's save button ...
 * 17) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93325 VisualEditor mobile design
 * 18) "Learnability of our Content" project (m:Research:Student use of free online information resources)
 * 19) JMo will be doing 10-minute presentation on findings at 30 Jun metrics meeting.
 * 20) JMo will be contacting Trevor when report is ready
 * 21) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 22) No update 6/14
 * 23) ''Question to James: James: we ran A/B test in December, people just clicked anything until they could upload.  not top priority.
 * 24) TODO: Volker to set up a meeting with James (no sooner than July) about Medium event; current status of A/B testing.  Also Legal.
 * 25) James: also, more fundamental questions about consent from users.  Different patterns in use.
 * 26) Present Mobile research from Wikimania (T106422, T101333)
 * 27) No update 6/14
 * 28) ''This overlaps with https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93325 VisualEditor mobile design.
 * 29) What is the priority of this, if it's behind wikitext editor?  Is it low?
 * 30) James: VE team isn't working on it because haven't been able to come up with conceptual solutions. The lack of a compelling model, which would have to come from research (and not VE team), is what's blocking this.
 * 31) So "this" is not just writing up last year's research, but also figuring out a research strategy.
 * 32) TODO: Joel to talk to Trevor about getting Nirzar (or somebody) to take this again.
 * 33) Accessibility Consulting for user standardization''
 * 34) No update 6/14
 * 35) Volker: Next week is UX offsite, will see results from there first

=Discussion= JMo: Are there any presentations going on at Wikimania that bear on this work? Joe: having a discussion and presenting the idea of Edit Review improvements https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Discussions/Quality_tools, hearing reactions Structure to collect feedback: Nick: there will be an etherpad, and sheet of paper to solicit username and area of interest.