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 3 Nov 2016. Next Meeting 1 Dec 2016.

=New Items for next meeting= = Projects =
 * 1) New Wikitext Editor
 * 2) Testing should not be blocked
 * 3) Daisy will check today and, if not blocked, start scheduling sessions
 * 4) James: would love to get any heuristic analysis ASAP, in order to address them before user testing
 * 5) Daisy: what is timeline?
 * 6) James: end of Sep, which has already passed
 * 7) Recent Changes Pages
 * 8) made tweaks based on first three meetings
 * 9) Joe: One more meeting is probably enough
 * 10) Joe and Daisy will talk today about effectiveness testing and checking in with beta users
 * 11) Need to start looking at how this might fit on other pages that ORES is applied to, like watch list.  May or may not need usability testing.
 * 12) Edit Review Improvements Interviews
 * 13) Nick: JMo updated the summary at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:New_editor_support_strategies
 * 14) Supporting Templates When Translating Articles ("STWTA")
 * 15) Amir: Thanks to Daisy for testing.
 * 16) Generally positive comments; comments are in line with expectations.
 * 17) Some comments that address areas we are unsure about; discussing in Phabricator.
 * 18) Not sure when to deploy, maybe next week.
 * 19) The fundraising deployment freeze is coming up.  James: no date announced yet, but already in a "no technically risky deployments" zone
 * 20) Amir: it's a fairly big change.  But risk is less translated articles, shouldn't affect fundraising.
 * 21) Are we finished with Design participation?
 * 22) Done with UX/Daisy, still talking to Pau
 * 23) Accessibility Consulting for user standardization
 * 24) Volker: Still paused
 * 25) Task list / campaigns feature
 * 26) Amir: renamed it today, to "Translation List"
 * 27) Working on a very minimal plan, deliver something very basic (but working) this quarter
 * 28) Will communicate minimum design next week, then we will see what design input is needed
 * 29) Conceptual development for Mobile long-form editing
 * 30) Paused.
 * 31) CJK italics/emphasis user testing (Volker)
 * 32) No update Nov 3 2016.
 * 33) Previously:
 * 34) Wonder if we have ability to recruit speakers of mandarin, korean, etc.
 * 35) have special case in UI challenge where cjk languages about italics, users of those languages can...
 * 36) 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.
 * 37) Daisy: reach out to CLs, or microsurvey, or quick unmoderated/guerrilla study
 * 38) Volker will follow-up with Daisy

=Discussion=
 * Daisy is traveling today, not very available rest of week/weekend.