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 25 Aug 2015.

New Action Items
New:
 * James to ping Nirzar for ETA when prototype mobile Web version will be ready for an evaluative research (allow 1 week for recruiting, 1 week for analylsis to hit Sept 30 deadline)
 * Abbey and DR team present mobile contributions research to full editing team when it is ready
 * Trevor to create an initial meeting for "Concepts in broad user interaction" project
 * Nirzar: Link recommendations in VisualEditor – 'ACTION: Nirzar to add Phab LINK?'
 * Abbey to communicate capacity, and how much can be done in parallel between now and 9/30
 * Pau scheduled some Content Translation pilot tests, will contiue next week
 * Grace to set up special 30 mins week of 8/31 to discuss priorities
 * James to send Abbey link for testing with experienced editors VisualEditor when cursor is near a link (evaluate both experiences)

Old:
 * Nirzar to book review meetings for Upload Tool – ???

= Projects =
 * 1) Support unforeseen VE Launch issues
 * 2) No news 25 Aug
 * 3) VE Mobile Research (independent from Demo effort) T101333 / report: T106422
 * 4) Mobile edit contributions at Wikimania
 * 5) Very generative
 * 6) ETA week of Aug 31 to complete analysis
 * 7) Then all 4 DR team members to write report to maximize number of perspectives
 * 8) Create and execute a test plan for the VE mobile prototype T88756
 * 9) VE team is publically committed (mediawiki.org, quarterly goals) to undertaking some user testing of mobile prototype by end of Q1 (end of Sep 2015)
 * 10) Evaluative on a piece of software
 * 11) We have a design (based on design principles, not testing) that is the basis of current implementation tasks; may be able to use this for testing
 * 12) Persona: casual editor
 * 13) ACTION: James to ping Nirzar for ETA when prototype mobile Web version will be ready for an evaluative research (allow 1 week for recruiting, 1 week for analylsis to hit Sept 30 deadline)
 * 14) Research on Curation Tools (exploratory) (was: Flow: Exploratory Notifications Research Phab. T100650)
 * 15) Danny and JMo to talk Aug 26
 * 16) VE Education Features – T108620
 * 17) James & Abbey spoke
 * 18) Next steps: engineering work now that initial designs are done
 * 19) Plan usability testing once we know timing
 * 20) VE Link Inspector T101166
 * 21) James & Abbey spoke
 * 22) Next steps: engineering work now that initial designs are done
 * 23) Plan usability testing once we know timing
 * 24) Content Translation Translation Dashboard
 * 25) Jonathan and Pau working on it,
 * 26) ACTION: Pau scheduled some pilot tests, will contiue next week
 * 27) ContentTranslation: Translation lists T104353
 * 28) no updates Aug 25
 * 29) Need to complete by Sept 30
 * 30) Change to the behavior of VisualEditor when cursor is near a link – T91285
 * 31) Changes the nature of typing around links so that entering into the text of a link becomes a positive action
 * 32) flagged for Nirzar
 * 33) had been avoiding this for various reasons but appears necessary due to language support issues
 * 34) probably a fairly constrained UI, but we can do some exploration around it
 * 35) Amir would like to review as well
 * 36) Needs heuristic, maybe then a quick usability test for new and maybe experienced users.
 * 37) Next steps: do evaluative research with a control group to compare new option to old option
 * 38) ACTION: James to send Abbey link for testing with experienced editors (evaluate both experiences)
 * 39) Amir: Mobile in CX parent task: T106396, DR task: T108700
 * 40) No updates Aug 25
 * 41) Identify user targets
 * 42) not starting immediately, but notification
 * 43) New Upload tool in VE and WikiText Editor – T40030
 * 44) No updates Aug 25
 * 45) Prateek working on the Multimedia part and Nirzar working on VE part; met last week to coordinate
 * 46) Nirzar to check in with Prateek again, and Trevor and James for design questions
 * 47) Abbey: DR is available to discussion
 * 48) Card sort for Info Arch in toolbar in VE: T97001
 * 49) No update Aug 25
 * 50) Nirzar: not complete
 * 51) "Concepts in broad user interaction" project
 * 52) ACTION: Trevor ready to start forming questions- kickoff meeting with Abbey & DR, Trevor, James, JonK, Nirzar
 * 53) High level on the project: research question? / time lines? / persona this is for?
 * 54) start planning generative research
 * 55) Link recommendations in VisualEditor – 'ACTION:  Nirzar to add Phab LINK?'
 * 56) Project that Data Research are working on
 * 57) Nirzar working conceptual designs with them
 * 58) Needs a lot of work to integrate

Discussion

 * none

Next Meeting
8 Sept 2015